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I will briefly call the attention of the Asst. Comm. to the abuse of the state law punishing those who interfere with contracted laborers. Four or five cases have come up where employers have driven off hands, and when the hands have hired elsewhere, the employers have threatened the new employers with the 500 dollar law, thus refusing to give the freed man a house themselves, or to allow any one else to do so. I would inquire whether some general order would not be appropriate in the case.
Very Respectfully
Your Obt. Servt
Sam S. Gardner
Superintindent  

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