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is very little, if any truth in this complaint and I must believe that a great share of it is done for effect. i.e. to make
an excuse for the legislator to pass some severe vagrant act, by which planters will be allowed some system of compelling labor.

I tell the planters that the Freedmen certainly work as well as they paid.

The R.R. Company has furnished work for a great many. paying $15.00 per month for first class hands. Those men have worked well. and it has been a source of considerable trouble to the planters. for their best men would run off and hire on the R.R. when they could get better wages.

I believe that the people of this Sub District were perfectly willing before the Election to comply with all the requirements of the Freedmens Bureau. Since that time they have shown more independence, generally demanding trial before civil courts. This I have granted with the exception of a few cases, I done so even before I had my orders believing it to be the policy of the government. 

I have been present whenever I could at all trials where Freedman were concerned telling the court that I were there for the purpose of taking notes. and reporting the whole proceedings to Hd. Quarters of the District thus enabling the Bureau to see how justice was delt out to Freedmen in Civil Courts. I find that it has a good effect and the Courts seem anxious to do the fair thing

Yesterday I was present at the trial of