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own consent + if the parents are living must see them and have their consent + further that he shall meet out justice impartially to all citizens. The idea seems to prevail very generally among a certain class of people employing freedmen that they have a right to beat + pound them as much as they please, or if not the right they feel perfectly secure against any interference of Civil Authorities for such offences. if the negro resents such treatment by word or act he is liable to be shot. There has been three (3) freedmen killed in this district during the past month and in only one case has there been any attempt to arrest the murderers and that was a failure. There has been one or two other cases of shooting but the result was not fatal. in one case a freedman came to me and reported that a freedman had been shot by his employer on a plantation a few miles from the city I procured an ambulance and had the man brought into the Freedmans Hospital he was shot with a double barrel shot gun loaded with bird shot, an officer from this office