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that there is actually no power to enforce order in the remote districts, it is strange that the country is so orderly.   But this state of things cannot last unless enforced; and in the absence of civil law, & the inability of the military power to pay sufficient attention to the constant disputes that will arise between the planters & their laborers, it is of the utmost importance that experienced Superintendents should be at once stationed at the most important points, whose sole business should be to attend to all questions arising between the employers & the freedmen, with power to try & punish offences.

The joint traveling expenses of the commission amount to $96.90, which [[strikethrough]] [[?]] [[/strikethrough]] was paid by ourselves.

H.H. Moore Chaplain, 34 U.S.C.T.
J.T. Osler, Presbyterian Church, Jacksonville,
Edward G. Stetson.