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held at a reasonable figure by many parties enables the freedmen to invest & which he is doing in accordance with the instructions of the Agents & the Officers of the Bureau. The amount of Claims paid for Bounties &c. in the sub District for the month of Oct. 1867 Amounts to $14,591.02 Fourteen thousand five hundred and ninety one 02/100 dollars.

Colored schools are receiving unusual attention. The New Radical City board of Nashville has just passed an ordinance requiring the City Board of Education to open & support Col'd schools in their just proportion. In the rural sections of the sub Dist., the Bureau is repairing School Buildings & opening schools at some six (6) new points. The col'd people start the work and after expending several hundred dollars, an appropriation from the Bureau brings it to completion. The Col'd people are generally paying toward their schools not less than the teachers board.

It is a subject of extreme gratification that the interest of the col'd people in the educational department and the enlightenment of their race does not flay, but is rather intensified.

I am "General"
Very Respy Your Obed Servt
Michl. Walsh
Capt. VRC and Sub Asst Com