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transcript from Records of Sub. Commissioner's Court, giving the adjudication of some of the principal complaints made to this Office by Freedmen.

The larger number of complaints where Freedmen were driven from their homes for some trivial or fancied offence, are not recorded. In the majority of these instances I have succeeded in effecting an amicable settlement of all difficulties between the employer & employee, and have returned the Freedmen to his labor at his old home

These complaints are now increasing daily. Strict and vigorous measures should be at once adopted to prevent this, as it must if permitted unchecked necessarily result in great suffering to the Freedmen during the winter and a palpable injury to the labor of the country. The reasons for this are obvious. When Freedmen are thus discharged they are invariably driven from their homes without pay for labor performed during the year; without their share of the crop being insured to them when it may be gathered, and often without being permitted to reap the benefits of their own industry in raising for themselves small crops of corn, potatoes, peas &c. Being thus deprived of a home and of labor at a time when labor is scarce, and because of this injustice possessing no means to protect them against the inclemencies of the winter, or to provide for a home and its comforts, they suffer much, and are filled with such a distrust of the whiteman that they prefer any situation, any employment, to returning to, and giving