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one Month and usually verbal.
IV  No sick, old or infirm freed people are known to be suffering for the want of anything within the authority of this Office to supply
V  No rations have been issued in the Sub Dist within the month past. 
VI  One School is in operation: just opened by a Mulatto teacher of very limited attainments. 
VII  Marriage relations among many of the freed-people are frequently disregarded by both sexes: The old habit of "taking up" is still practiced among them without any notice being taken of the crime by the civil authorities which this office has information of.
VIII  Disposition of the white people toward the colored people: -In most cases when personal interests will not immediately suffer by just treatment, the colored people are shown considerations which has heretofore been quite unusual. The fact that the right of suffrage has been extended to them and that they now have the privilege of voting at elections may be an explanation of the recent change of conduct on the part of the resident white people.
IX  Complaints & outrages: -Two cases of assaults and battery were taken notice of by the Sub Asst Comr. during the month of August, and two cases of non-payment for services.
X  State laws: -are seldom resorted to by freedmen                          
 

Transcription Notes:
Edited a few things. Sub Asst Comr. -not Sub Afst Coms.