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to report for Registry it may be considered as complete.

There is no complaint of destitution. The County authorities profess willingness to provide for all really necessitous and apparently make no distinction of color in rendering aid

The schools of Lexington are in flourishing condition. Elsewhere there are no schools save at Brownsburg Bath. Co, a small day school taught by a freedman. In conversation with this teacher he said the colored people were deeply anxious to become educated and would establish schools in every neighborhood if provided with the requisite means He is very sanguine of his success in creating an interest. At Natural Bridge is a small sunday school I do not doubt but that in this Division there is a prevalent desire among the freedmen to educate themselves I saw nothing to lead to opposite conclusion. After realization of years labor my impression is that numerous small schools will be organized in those communities where there are numbers of freedmen. I was pleased with Major Sharp's administration of Bureau affairs generally. Blessed with a thick skin, impervious to insult from the whites, he has worked his way along until there seems almost

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