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Consolidate Report of County Superintendents, Nashville Sub District for January 1867 as called for by circular No. 4. [[13 columned table]] | County | Superintendents | No. Rations | Quantity issued Clothing | Quantity issued Medicine | Numbers Contracts | Numbers Persons | Fines and Forfeitures collected | No. Orphans and Minors apprenticed | Number Schools | Number Scholars | Number Teachers | Remarks of Superintendents. | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Bedford | | | | | | | | | | | | No Superintendent | | Cheatham | | | | | | | | | | | | No Superintendent | | Cannon | | | | | | | | | | | | No Superintendent | | Coffee | Smith Joel. B. | None | None | None | None | None | | | 1 | 50 | | The relations existing between the white and col'd citizens of this county are agreeable | | Dickson | | | | | | | | | | | | No Superintendent | | Davidson | Lawrence John. | | | | | | | | | | | The general condition of the freedmen in this Co. is as good as could be expected. | | DeKalb | Goodwin W.H. | | | | 19 | | | 5 | 2 | 100 | | There is apparently but little disposition among the freedmen and employers to make contracts before the Bureau in this Sub District | | Fentress | | | | | | | | | | | | No Superintendent | | Franklin | | | | | | | | | | | | No Superintendent | | Giles | Judd Capt Geo E. | | | | | | | | 3 | 125 | 4 | There is no trouble between the negroes and whites, labor is very scarce and in good demand | | Grundy | | | | | | | | | | | | No Superintendent | | Humphries | Gossett H.| | | | | | | | | | | No Report received | | Hickman | Puckett J.N.| | | | | | | | | | | No Report received | | Jackson | | | | | | | | | | | | No Superintendent | | Lewis | | | | | | | | | | | | No Superintendent | | Lawrence | | | | | | | | | | | | No Superintendent | | Lincoln | Bearden Alfred | | | | 10 | 16 | | | | | | No acts of cruelty reported to me since Christmas holidays. | | Montgomery | Cobb. Jas [illegible due to smudge] | None | None | None | 49 | 40 | | None | 4 | 400 | 4 | Both white and black weem to think that as the courts are open to the col'd people there is no particular necessity for having contracts ratified by the Bureau. | | Maury | Gregory J.H. | None | None | None | 34 | 86 | | None | | | | I have not approved any contracts unless the (freedmen) obtained one half of the crop, and all necessary stock farming implements &c furnished by the employer. | | Marshall | West Moses C. | None | None | None | 27 | | None None | 2 | | | | There has been no personal violence or abuse towards freedmen. | | Macon | Rogers Wm W. | | | | 94 | | | | | | | In my opinion if there were officers enough in Sumner Co to stop murders, thieving and house breaking and other outrages there would be no trouble. | | Overton | | | | | | | | | | | | No Superintendent | | Perry | Taylor Jesse | | | | | | | | | | | No Report received. | | Putnam | Hunter B.D. | | | | | | | | | | | No Report received. | | Robertson | Holman D.D. | | | | | | | | | | | No Report received. | | Rutherford | Nelson J.K. | | | | | | | | | | | The contracting this year is mostly for a share of the crop | | Smith | Goodwin W.H. | | | | | | | | | | | See DeKalb County | | Stewart | Stewart Geo W. | | | | | | | | | | | No Report received. | | Sumner | Rogers Wm W. | | | | | | | | | | | See Macon County | | Wayne | Fowler J.H. | | | | 7 | 7 | None None | 3 | | | | The feelings of citizens toward freedmen not so favorable as heretofore | | Williamson | Judd. Capt Geo E. | | | | | | | | 2 | 100 | 3 | I have not been able to learn much about Williamson Co. during this month | | Warren | Lowry Wm. | | | | | | | | | | | The freedmen are entering into contracts for another year independent of any approval feeling themselves free to do so. | | White | Simpson Revd Rich | | | | | | | | | | | At the present time the freedmen are engaged at labor and are peaceable and quiet | | Wilson | Goodwin W.H. | | | | | | | | | | | See DeKalb County. | | | | | | | 240 | 252 | | 10 | 12 | 775 | 11 | | Michl. Walsh Captain V.R.C. and Sub. Asst Com. Nashville Sub District
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I made Fines and Forfeitures 1 instead of 2 columns.