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[[7 columned table]]
| 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. |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |

| J J Hamilton | No | Bastrop | - | 24 | 25 | Colored teacher |

"Give a statement of the official business transacted during the month; 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."
Official business transacted during the month has been explaining and approving of Contracts, settling old Contracts, hearing complaints, giving advice, attending to the building of the new School-house here etc 
Office hours from 9 A.M. to 4 P.M.
Absent four days from Office with the "chills"

"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."
No troops at the Place. The performances of the last few days ought to convince anyone that they are needed or at least should be sent here to arrest the outlaws who are outraging law abiding people and defying the Civil Authorities 
In fact there is no authority here of any kind able and willing to protect the freed people or whites.

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