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ninety six. These schools closed on the 26th until the 1st october. As yet nothing has been done in Montgomery County on this subject, but I will on making the tour [[strikethrough]] of [[/strikethrough]] ordered through the Sub Dist ascertain the most suitable and central points in that County to establish schools, and if possible the feeling of the people on the subject of education.

Official business transacted in the office has been of a varied nature, such as settling debts in which freed-people were concerned, calling their attention to the necessity of their faithful observance of the conditions of their contracts, directing white people to fulfil the conditions of their contract with the freedpeople, settling domestic troubles among freed people, advising with them, calling their attention to the necessity of marriage, and the evils arising from their no observance of it, &c. I have considerable trouble