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[[left margin]] colored people [[/left margin]]
influence of the Bureau, they do not, every effort is made to keep them in constant fear: threats are made, and for every frivolous offense, they are arrested and subjected to fines and imprisonments. It is a noticeable fact, that if a freedman commits an offense, there is every effort made to have him arrested, but when he is the recipient of injustice or the object of an outrage which are of frequent occurrence, the civil officers are very slow to act, and require that every formula be complied with before they will do any thing.
[[left margin]] Complaints [[/left margin]]
IX. Quite a number of complaints have been made during the month by freedmen, that they have been driven off of the places where they were working. This will, unless some strenuous effort are made to prevent it, be a source of much evil. The crops are, generally, laid by and the planters can do without the greater part of their labor, and if they can get rid of a portion, it will obviate the
[[left margin]] Disposition of the whites to defraud their freedmen

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Bottom left margin: Disposition of the whites to defraud [this looks like a word crossed out by the author] freedmen.