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farm. The Am. Miss. Ass have promised a teacher, the Bureau has appropriated $100. and it only remains for the freedmen to do their part, which will be urged upon them. One is needed at the Court House; I think the Agent will be able to induce the freedmen to work together and [[?]] once, as they have the land. Another is in accteel at the upper end of the County, but no site for it has yet been secured. These should be schools  in the lower and upper extremities of Gloucester Co.. The people are un used to combined effort, and only by encouragement and assistance is it possible to have good schools started in these destitute places. Very few are able to pay anything for tuition
Of the general condition of the people I would say that they are evenly scattered over these two counties mostly renting land on shares; on better terms in Gloucester than in Matthews: land usually claiming one-fourth, labor one-half, teams, fodder, seed, implements, +c  one fourth of the crop; this rate is customary throughout the peninsula