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into execution. Mr Poston also says, under date of Aug 23d in relation to the establishment of schools: I have used every available means in encouraging the freedpeople in organizing schools, and would have succeeded admirably in Haywood County had it not been infested with incendiaries. We have had a very good school at the David Nunn plantation, but the building was burned. I have before reported that there is a school now being taught of over 40 scholars on the ground without a house. We built another school house at Cageville; it was furnished about the 4 of Aug., but on the night of the 5th it was burned down - no clue has yet been got if the incendiary. Not withstanding all these difficulties, I expect to have four schools in operation in Haywood county by the 20th of Sept and two in Tilton County, but think it very doubtful as to our success in Lauderdale County; the people receive no encouragement from the citizens, and I find it almost impossible to get up a school without the cooperation of the citizens.

In Shelby County many complaints have been made during the month by the freedpeople of having been driven from their crops without settlement; now that the crops have been laid by. With the exception of the case of S. S. Dave. I have succeeded