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concerned, not withstanding their attention has been called to the matter by the office of the Bureau of this Sub Dist! Note:  There is a white man held in the jail of this County at the present time under the charge of Adultery, under one hundred dollars bond, while many more flagrant cases against freedmen are passed over!

VIII Disposition of the whites towards the colored people is generally bad, on the part of the latter they evinced a disposition to do their duty, while on the part of the former they throw every obstical in the way of them to create discontent & strife.

IX The number of complaints and outrages recorded in this office for the month of August 1867 and first non settlements of the year 1866 & 1867 are as follows number of complaints, Total 75 classifed in the following order non settlement 56 Outrages 13 Swindle 7 and in addition there has been during the month probably thirty cases of which I have made no record, of which, comes under the whole classification & was adjusted amicably.