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Contracts are much better for the laborer this year than last and the freedpeople have a very fair opportunity to save considerable Most] of the freedpeople are working on shares Numerous complaints are made by freedmen who worked last year until the crop was made and who were then driven off. It is impossible in most of such cases for them to get anything as the parties who thus swindled them have left the country. Also because the freedpeople signed contracts that were very unfair and unjust, that made the laborers liable to be discharged for the most trivial offences, at any time and to loose their entire pay. Experience has been a great benefit to the them.

Registration
Is progressing regionally and uninterruptedly though many failed to hear of it until after the Registers had gone. consequently did not register

Temperance 
Freedmen are not disposed to the intemperate a movement is being made to establish a temperance society in this city   

Transcription Notes:
3-14-2021: Deciphered [[?]]s, Completed transcription per guidelines and marking for review