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Office Superintendent of Education, 
OF REFUGEES AND FREEDMEN, STATE OF TEXAS, 
Galveston, April 30", 1866

Brig. Gen'l E M Gregory. 
Ass't Com'r B.R.F. and A.L.

General,

I have the honor to report that there are now employed in this State, under the Supervision of the Bureau, Forty five Teachers of Freedmen, conducting ninety schools; of which forty are day schools, Twenty nine night schools and Twenty one Sunday schools.

The total attendance of Pupils is Four Thousand seven hundred and ten, of whom about two thirds are children, and the remainder adults.

The School-growth has been small for this month, owing to the reduction of the Military force, compelling us to suspend the proposed location of Schools at numerous promising points.

Some of the Schools already solid and prosperous, will have to be abandoned, at no distant day, but as yet none have been yielded.

The supply of trained Instructors obtained

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