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of the landholders for support; they had to obtain credit from their employers, in order to buy the necessary clothing etc for themselves and their facilities, which were frequently charged at such exorbitant prices, or articles charged, which they never received that even if the crop had not been a failure, some Freedmen would from that income alone he largely indebted to their employers. 

All these evils would be easily remedied, if justice was administered in the events of this Sub District to everybody without distinction of color, but only a for Civil Officials will do this, not withstanding the permissions of the Civil Rights Bill and other Acts of Congress. 

As said before, there are many complaints made at this Office, but how many crimes there are committed, which never will come to my notice, I am unable to tell. 

The crops of this year are a great failure; planters are bankrupt, and the Commissioner Merchants, from where they obtained their supply of provisions on a deed of trust on the crop, being in  most all cases losers to a great