Directors of sub-districts and Boards of civil districts are required to organize a colored school when the district contains over twenty-five colored children of school age. Colored men will not be eligible to office as school directors. In any district where the average monthly attendance at the colored school falls below fifteen, it is made the duty of the Directors to close it for a period not exceeding five months; but the quota of the school fund belonging to such children cannot be alienated to any other purpose.

The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.), 16 March 1867, Page 2. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress.