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person in charge totaly unfit for such duties, the food bad in quality and insufficient in quantity nothing but "Negro's" being confined there in the "Iron Cages" each about (six by ten) 6 by 10 feet wherein are some (30) thirty men, cleanliness neglected, food only twice a day, composed of soup made of a large tin bucked of water with a small quantity of Cornmeal added a small bit of meat and bread (Corn) scarcely sufficient to keep body and soul together, the cases should by tried by a civil magistrate at once for some of the Freedmen will be confined for three and six month, sickness, starvation and death must be the consequences, the Jailor releives or is to relieve (so he say) from the County thirty (30) cents a person per day for food, I herofere [[herefore]] think that as far as food, that could, or should be remided, it is a mere boy and a widow lady, named respectively Nancy Anderson and Thomas Anderson her son, who has