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I respectfully suggest that in the future as in the past much good would result - could our agents interest themselves in sending claimants to these banks to have their checks cashed.  The cashiers inform me that now this is seldom or never done.

[[stamp]] THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE UNITED STATES [[/stamp]]

Schools
The people in Tennessee and Kentucky are sadly in want of schools. In the former there is no state system. Each county is allowed to use its own pleasure in establishing schools. At Chattanooga, Hamilton Co. there is not a public school building except the one recently erected by this Bureau and now in charge of the A.M.A. It is expected that a school for colored children will be opened in this building sometime this month.  They have had no school privileges for two years. This city has just appropriated a sufficient sum to each one of the wards (5) to employ a teacher for colored children during five months.  Mr. Tade is now making effort to secure this money for the support of the school in the building of the AMA. The absence of school privilege for the white children has led several white persons some lately Confederates to seek admission for their