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with G.O.31  C.S. __ The Contract system, is good, provided it be properly carried out.  I think it absolutely necessary, now, that freedpersons, can sue, and be sued, that the system be improved upon, and continued, they should be made in triplicate, something [[underline]] definite [[/underline]] should be stated, relative to the terms, for which laborers are to work.  I would respectfully suggest, that officers, and Agents, of this Bureau, [[underline]] alone [[/underline]], be permitted to approve Contracts, looking at the present state of things, in my opinion, there is no [[underline]] surety [[/underline]] for freedpersons, without this, I am very confident, that the result will be wonderful, in the Sub. Dist. of Louisville, after labor has been [[underline]] properly [[/underline]] organized.  We are determined to see that not only the [[underline]] men [[/underline]], contract, for 1868, but, that their wives, and all their families, who are able, contract also, and by so doing lift themselves out of debt.  Many freedpersons, are in debt this year, for food, because their wives, & families have not worked.  I have told them often, that idleness, will reduce them again into bondage, for the very fact, that the man who is in debt, [[underline]] is not a Free Man! [[/underline]]  During the next two months, I shall be busy