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White men whipping Colored Children or Women, no higher fine than ten or twenty dollars has been imposed, in my recollection. 

The freedman are generally working very well being stimulated with the hope of making something this year, as the crops are generally in very promising condition. In the progress of the season, I frequently see account books of provisions furnished to the laborers, in which the charges are invariably from fifteen to twenty cents above the market price, and upon these the laborers are told that 25 % interest will be charged. In case the State is not admitted to the Union before harvest and the Bureau is continued, I would suggest that authority be given to officers of the Bureau, or some other Commission to make settlements in behalf of the freedmen, reducing all charges to the market price at respective dates, as shall be ascertained from Merchants books of the same dates, and allowing only legal interest.

Many applications are made from Covington County for supplies, but I apprehend that there cannot be very much actual suffering there before harvest, although there may be some, while on the other hand the liability to imposition from the unscrupulous characters of the class who have heretofore applied for and handled the Government aid, will justify withholding any further supplies, as the least of two evils. There is however urgent need of a small amount of aid for a truly