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Buffalo, Putnam Co. - Soon after my arrival here in Chapston I received a letter from the colored teacher at [[strikethrough]] this place [[/strikethrough]] Buffalo, saying the trustees had violated their contract with him, and refused to continue the school, after a session of three months. I immediately went there, and found the following state of facts. The number of scholars enumerated was only twenty three (It is a question whether there are not more.) The Board of education and the Board of Trustees had refused to provide any school, since the enactment of the free school law, on the ground of there not being thirty scholars. A colored man sued the district for the proportion of money due [[strikethrough]] the colored [[/strikethrough]] his own, (I think) children. The Trustees compromised by agreeing to allow a colored school to be kept, until the public money due was exhausted. Dr. C.G. Chase, as one of the Trustees, hired Harelwood, the teacher referred to above, for six months, telling him there were $300 due the colored children. The school was kept, to the satisfaction of all parties, for three months. After the usual vacation Harelwood returned