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transmit a School Report received this day from Miss Henrietta C. Oppelt, who is teaching a col'd School at De Kalb, Kemper County. I respectfully beg leave to call attention to the remarks in her Report under the head of Observations,  and to endorse her request for some school books. In her letter of transmittal Miss Oppelt puts the question to me whether the Government will extend any pecuniary Aid to her. Situated as she is now she has to charge each pupil $1.50 per month for tuition, which to some degree may account for the small number of scholars.

She is a Southern lady by birth, a circumstance that under the present
political agitations should speak in her favor. I respectfully request 
information as to whether she can expect any aid from the Bureau.

The Misses Jarvis and McClellan, both teachers at col'd Schools, arrived here today from Ohio. They intend to organize a School here. One of the two Government buildings at this place had been  assigned them for that purpose. 
Very Respectfully, Your obedient Servant,
Henry E. Rainnes 
Capt. V.R.B, Sub. Comm'r Dist. Meridian


Bureau Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Land
Offices Sub. Comm'r Dist Meridian
Meridian, Miss. October 6th 1866

Oppelt Miss Henrietta C.
De Kalb, Kemper County, Miss.
 
I have the honor to acknowledge receipt of your [[crossed out]] communication [[/crossed out]] School Report for last month. I have forwarded the same to Vicksburg; called attention to your remarks under the head of "Observations", and endorsed your request for some
School books. I have likewise made inquiry as to whether you can 
expect any aid from the Bureau in pecuniary respects.

Please inform me whether you, in your efforts to establish a school for col'd children, have met with any opposition on the part of the citizens, and if so, whether such feelings or actions are still prevailing. It is of importance for the Bureau to know how the Southern people  treat the question of education of the Negro, and 


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all the information, therefore, you can give on the subject will be of value.

I beg leave to enclose a blank form of the Monthly Report of Schools.  You will observe I have written some remarks for your future guidance, and filled out the headings as they should be. You made a few mistakes in your late report which I, with your permission, have corrected.

Please forward your Monthly Reports in time to reach me on the last day of the month.

I remain, very respectfully, your ob'dt Serv't
Henry E Rainnes
Capt & Sub Comm'r Dist. Meridian


Bureau Ref's, Freedmen & Aban'd Lands.
Office Sub-Comm'r Dist. Meridian
Meridian Miss, October 7th, 1866.

White Lieut D.M.
Asst. Sub-Comm'r Dist. Meridian
Lauderdale, Miss,

Lieutenant,
I respectfully return your Ration Returns for the month of November, 1866, Approved, with exception of two to be corrected.

Very respectfully,
your obd't Serv't,
Henry E Rainnes
Capt VRC, Sub Comm'r D.M.

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