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And again, there are instances through the county where families of the Freedman are sick with the Small Pox.  Their contracts being so near out the planters wish to get rid of them and say they must have them removed the first of next month if not before. For they wish their houses and do not wish the rest of their hands exposed and they say as long as each cases are on their farms they cannot hire horses.  We have no Pest hospital in the Bureaus as such cases are always taken charge off by the city.  Neither could we provide each Hos. here if we tried.

I also wish information regarding Orphan children.  As some people wish to get rid of them, and some wish to keep them, but risks legal authority for so doing.

The state of affairs throughout the surrounding country is not at all satisfactory.  No Justice of the Peace seems inclined to do justice.  And as I stated in a previous communication amid parties are patrolling the country (nightly) disarming the negros, and in scary instances robbing them of what little money or valuables they may possess.