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owning to the fact that they are required to support the teachers. A great majority of Parents feel that they have enough to feed and clothe their children, and in fact they cannot do that decently and fifty cents or a dollar per month for 3 or 4 children would be a heavy tax on their scant income, it is to be hoped that the Common School law of the state will go into operation at an early day.

Disbursements

I have paid to Claiborne Harrod the sum of $189.50/100 dollars am't of Bounty claim allowed him by the Depart. The limited amount of business in this line has been on account of noncompliance on the part of Mr. T McKinly (who filed most of the claims in this Section, with the rules of the Dept. Some twenty eight or thirty Treasury Certificates have been received by him and sent to the Maj Genl Howard. I received a few days since Voucher on four of them. I received notice from Mr. McKinly that he has complied with regulations in all the cases & there will be probably more to do next month in this line.

K. J. Sample agent at Lebanon Tenn reports as follows.

Education in this district has for the last month been also wholly neglected among the freedmen. In Lebanon a small school is being taught on the pay system, owing to the poverty of a