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Bureau R. F. & A. L.
Office Sub- Asst. Comr
Tupelo Miss. Oct. 31st/67
Lieut. J. F. Conyngham
A. A. A. Genl. Bu. R. F. & A. L.
Vicksburg Miss.
[[left margin]] Their condition and how they have been paid for work. mature of contracts +c. [[/left margin]]
Lieutenant
I have the honor to enclose herewith reports due from this office for the month of Oct. 1867. A large majority of the freedmen in this Sub Dist are working for a share of the crop at a fair remuneration, others are working for stated wages at a fair compensation. There is a class of freedpeople that prefer living in and about the towns and villages, the men working by the day, and doing jobs, when this kind of work can be obtained, the women depend on washing clothes +c,. this class of freedpeople do not work more than half of their times, have contracted habits of idleness, and consequently very poor. There has been a number of complaints from freedmen of parties to whom they have contracted to labor the present year, not paying them according to contract, many of these complaints find true. Some of the freedmen