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

Generally good 

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."

There is great desire on the part of the freedmen to have schools established but it is almost impracticable on account of the distances which intervenes between the homes of these people. The country is so shortly settled that persons attending any established school at a given point would have to travel many miles to do so and the probability is that the attendance would be very dim. I have been informed that some efforts were made by a few of the Freedmen to establish a school in their county by the paying the expenses themselves but the project was abandoned for want of support and the probability of mean attendance of the Scholars. 

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