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tant General for the four year term 1872-1876. Member of Legislature 1868-1870. Page 10--W. J. McKinlay was also a member of the House of Representatives for part of 1868-69 period but resigned his seat to accept the position of Register of Mesne Conveyanes for Charlestown, to which the legislature elected him. Page 11--W. H. Jones, should be W H. Jones, Jr. John Williams was Sergeant-at-Arms from 1870 to close of period. As there were no free public schools for colored youth in South Carolina it is an error to state that Thomas E. Miller was educated in that way. It was against the law for anyone to teach a Negro even to read or write. I am also told that I am in error as to giving him credit for the establishment of the " State College" at Orangeburg. I will try to find out something about that matter. Very respectfully, H. A. WALLACE SOME CORRECTIONS FOR DATA SUBMITTED BY MR. H. A. WALLACE OF NEW YORK CITY 103 WEST 131 ST., NEW YORK CITY. March 11, 1918. MR. MONROE N. WORK, Editor Negro Year Book, Tuskegee Institute, Ala. _Dear Sir_: I presume you received my letter of February 18, also the one of January 19, relative to corrections in the data on Reconstruction. I herewith send you a few more before you go to press on your book pertaining to the part the Negro played in the political history of the Southern States during the Reconstruction period: I am in error as to James Martin, of Abbeville, who was assassinated, as being colored. I was informed that he was colored, but in reading the eulogies delivered by the different members of the House and Senate, I find that he was not even an American. He was a native of Ireland. W. A. Bishop, who represented the Greenville district in the first legislature, was white, not colored. In the list of delegates to the Republican meeting at Charlestown, May 9, 1867, he is given as white in Reynolds' book. I met a friend from Greenville about ten days ago and in speaking to him about Bishop he said that he was white and that he knew of no colored Bishops in that district. On page 9 of my data I state that Mr. Whipper was born in South Carolina. I met his son, who is living here, sometime ago and he informed me
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