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but they cannot be expected to have it yet. There are many other offences where the minimum fine is too great to be imposed upon the negroes in their present poverty stricken condition, and if the Legislature would provide for such cases by making the minimum smaller in the case of Freedman  I think it would have a very good influence, and would enable the Courts to inflict punishment upon them suitable to their condition.

The unlimited sale of ardent spirits to the negroes is productive of mischief, and is very injurious to them.  They are almost as much addicted