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[[left margin]] out of their earnings [[/left margin]]
necessity of making a settlement for work already done. Where the freedmen are working for a share of the crop, the planters, if they can get rid of their help, will keep all that is made, and leave the laborer in the same condition he was in at the beginning of the year-penny-less. This subject is worthy of some consideration, and such measures should be adopted that will secure to the freedmen just settlements for their labor. The delay in applying to the courts, and the general inability the freedmen have the give security for the cost, in case of failure to substantiate their claims, makes the usability of the civil courts to them a nullity and of no benefit. I would, therefore respectfully recommend, that in such cases the officers of the Bureau be invested with authority to make settlements, and secure to the freed people a prompt collection of their just claims. 
[[left margin]] Measures to be adopted to secure the freedmen their just claims [[/left margin]]
[[left margin]] State Laws [[/left margin]]
X. In regard to the State Laws,