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| NAME OF TEACHER. | Is Teacher Paid by Bureau? | School - where located. | Total Pupils attending day School. | Total Pupils attending night School. | Total Pupils attending Sunday School. | REMARKS. |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |

| Mrs. M.E. Butler | No | Huntsville Texas | 31 | 0 | 0 |   |

"Give a statement of the official business transacted during the moth; its nature and your method of disposing of the same. State your office hours; the number of days absent from office, if any, and reason for the same."

My business for the month has been chiefly in examining and approving contracts, and effecting settlements  
most all planters have finished settling for last year  
My Office hours are from 9 A.M until 4 P.M. but am generaly kept busy until dark.
I have not been absent from my Office this month.

"State the number of Troops at your Post and the necessity for the same; whether or not the freed people would be secure if they were removed; in other words will the civil authorities protect them and give them justice, &c. &c."

There are no troops stationed at this post, the necessity for their presence is very obvious to you, and it would be almost superfluous for me to report what I have so often embraced in my former reports in regard to their necessity. One thing very evident they give Tone and force to the existence of a "Bureau" in the midst of a community of rebels.

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