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

White people are very hostile to the colored people. In every settlement that I have made the white men have seemed determined to get all that is raised. They have charged the Freedmen from 6, to 25¢ per $ for Pork or Bacon & from 50¢ to $1.00 per bushel for corn & from 75¢ to $1.50 per cent for fodder & for merchandise 100% above Merchant's prices. 

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, &c."

Many people are wiling & I think some are even anxious to have the Freed people educated, but many of the most desperate are very much against it. Schoolhouses are building as fast as can be expected. One in Falls County is just finished. One in this County building, one at Gatesville Coryelle & two in Limestone County. Almost every plantation has some sort of School. A little money to complete the buildings, Teachers sent to them & books if any can be furnished by any charitable association.

The great trouble is to get teachers. The Freed people can pay them,