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Office Bureau R. F. and A. L.
Sub-Dist. Senatobia Miss
July 31st 1867

Sir

I have the honor to make the following Report for the month of July 1867.
The total number of Freed population in my Sub-Dist., from the best information I have at hand, is about fifteen (15,000) thousand all told. (De Soto County about eight (8,000) thousand, and Penola County seven (7,000) thousand.
I cannot say much about the treatment Freedmen received by the whites last year, however many complaints have come to me from Freedmen, for the short time, I have been on duty here, that they have not been paid for their last years services by their employers, and many of them are unable to procure even a settlement of accounts.
The Contracts made for the year 1867 are in nine cases out ten, for a portion of the crop generally one third of corn and cotton when the Planters furnish provisions, and one half of the crop, where Freedmen pay back the Planters the provision furnished them during the year. Freedmen generally understand

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