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Bureau Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands,
OFFICE SUB-ASST. COM. SUB-DIST. OF GRENADA,
Grenada, Mississippi, March 7th 1868.

Bvt Maj S.C. Greene
A.A.A.G. Bureau R.F. and A.L.
State of Miss
Sir
I have the honor to submit the following statement and report of action taken for the relief of freedmen employed on the Douglas Robinson plantation Carroll County Miss during the year 1867. The Robinson plantation was rented by a firm known as Renton & Towns, which firm contracted with freedmen numbering almost thirty to work the year. By the conditions contracts the freedmen were to receive one half of the amount of cotton raised on the plantation, With the exception, one freedman contracted that he and his wife were to receive eight (8) bales cotton for the years work and furnish their own supplies another to receive four (4) Bales cotton and furnish his own supplies. A Blacksmith contracted to work at his trade for $300.00 supplies furnished. A woman to receive $120.00 for the year and supplies furnished. The freedmen worked faithfully and made eighty-seven (87) bales of cotton eighty two (82) of which was levied by the landlord and shipped by the Sheriff of Carroll County in the name of J.S. Robinson (in order to keep it out of the hands of the supplyman) to Payne Huntington & Co of