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and that the freed people lack concert of action upon this subject. Those who are anxious to have a school started at Brownsville are not able to contribute towards its establishment or support and that those who are really able to give are opposed to the project.

The County has made no adequate provisions for assisting the aged and destitute freed people. Some twelve months ago the County passed an order to receive them into the Poor House, but it is located in a distant part of the county on a piece of very poor land and the "improvments are in a sorry condition." He also states that there are many aged freed persons who are in a destitute condition and greatly in need of the fostering care of the authorities. That there is a growing disposition among the freedmen to abandoned their old wives, the women they have lived with for years, because they are encumbered with children, and marry young women; and that the Civil Authorities can not or do not take any steps to prevent this growing and serious evil. Three Orphans have been apprenticed by the County Court during the month.

John D. Ussery Supt &c of Hardiman County reports that he has approved 82 contracts, embracing 258 laborers, a large proportion of whom are to work for an interest