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picks, the laborer to loose all the intervening time from "laying by crop" till picking time:

Second: protection against injury to the Stock of the freedmen, such as the shooting down and killing of their hogs, which may chance to stray off the lands occupied wholly by themselves upon those of the neighboring Planters, although it is the season for Stock to run at large on the places, and those of the Planters stray upon the lands occupied by the Freedmen without injury to such Stock.

Third: protection against the arbitrary assumption of persons going upon lands leased and occupied by Freedmen committing Trespasses, even in defiance of all remonstrance by cutting certain timber, removing and carrying away shrubbery, digging up and carrying off material found and embeded, such as iron, bones, in large quantities, and may make merchandise to those who assume such.

If assurance for protection could be given to the Freedmen in such cases as the above which are at present actual cases under investigation in this Sub District of the Bureau, I could see no good reason so far as this section is concerned for a continuance of the Bureau after the limitation by Act of Congress creating it.

The cases herein named are now in course of prosecution before the Bureau in this Sub District, I am sorry to have it to state are all against Northern Men."