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for very slight misdemeanors, think it just and right for them to dismiss a hand and enforce a forfeiture for months of hard labor. 

6th As the settlement of the years agricultural operation progresses, it develops a result very far from satisfactory, and upon close investigation becomes really startling. I seriously apprehend that a few months will show the destitution of this District to be nearly as great as last year, and the means of the planters to go on to make another crop, and nearly as great as they were last years. If this be so throughout the south, many will be entirely dependent on charity, and government will have to provide for them, and make advances to the planters, to enable them to make another crop. 

The continuance of the Bureau becomes a necessity as a reliable agency through which these advances and distributions may be made. More provisions have been made 1867 than in 1866 but not nearly sufficient to afford work animals and laborers sustenance until another crop can be made." 

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Liet. A. P. Caraher  Asst Sub Asst Commissioner reports: " In my opinion there will be no necessity for the continuance of the Freedmens Bureau in this Sub District after the time now limited by law. As a general thing the freedpeople can take care of themselves. 

But there should if possible be a change made in the Courts whereby speedy justice could be obtained; as the laws now stand poor whites as well as blacks suffer by its slow process."