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vicinity to talk to the people  Can I do this  I think all would go to work and there would be few if any complaints of idleness  As it is not yet generally known that a sub commissioner of Freedmen has been established here I have had few cases of any kind brought before me  I have approved two contracts. Applications have been made for a number others  Two cases has come up where former servants have left their employers in the one case the servant was driven off the other went voluntarily  In the first case I taxed the employer twenty five dollars the other fifteen dollars both of which was paid to the servants  Two cases of whipping has come up both of which I have taken steps to have investigated and [[strikethrough]] investigated [[/strikethrough]] punished 

Very Respectfully Yours &.c 
[[signature]] Chas G Austin [[/signature]]
Sub. Comm. of Freedmen.

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