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Brentwood Tenn Oct 26 1867
Mr D Burt Superintendent of Education Bureau R.F. and A. Lands Tennessee Sir: I Received your Notice with the teachers monthly School Report requesting me to fill this Blank as states in the Directions. 

Anxious to get the Matter Before you we Choose to give In Detail A Synopsis of our true State and Condition as It was and is Twelve months Ago the Methodist M.E. Church Bought one Half Acre of ground for Church and School purposes with A small Building upon It which the freedman Repared at their Expense scarcly had the sound og the Hammar Been loss In the Distants Before it was Burn down Determining not to yield to Discouragements they Erected the second at an Exspense of about four Hundred Dollars which Exhausted what means, they had, and left them In Debt to the Amount of About one Hundred and thirty Dollars we use the Building for Church and School purposes from August until October at which time It was