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"Report the disposition and feeling of the white people towards the freed people as expressed by words and actions."

There seems to be an increasing bitterness of feeling towards the colored people as the time for the election of a Convention draws near. The partial failure of the crops, and the low prices, also appear to have assisted in souring the disposition of many whites as regards the blacks.

EDUCATION.

"Report the feeling upon the subject of education; what steps have been taken to promote the same; what efforts the freed people are making in that direction and in what manner they may be assisted, etc., etc.,"

The colored people are building a school house here but will not--owing to the extreme and unexpected lowness of the price received for their crops,--be able to finish it without assistance from the Bureau. The lot on which the school house is being built was given to the colored people for school and church purposes by the Corporation of Bastrop [[?]].

The building will be 25 ft by 45 ft and will be put up as cheaply as possible. A Considerable quantity of the the necessary timber has been got out by the freedmen who will also do a part of the necessary labor without charge.