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Mount Meigs Ala Nov 29th 1866
Maj Gen W Swayne 

Dear Sir. I beg leave make to the following report of my Agency of the Bureau of Freedmen and A L for the month of November. I have had many complaints of labourers being turned off without paying them for their years labors, and am at a loss to advise what course to pursue for Justice of the Peace are willing to do all in their power for the Freedman but their hands are tied with 
the Stay Laws of Ala. If the Bureau has no powers to enforce contracts. I hope you will urge the Legislature now in session to pass a law for the protection of the labourers. As a general thing the employers are settling up with their hands but there are exceptions that makes the position I hold a very unpleasant one not being able to do for the negroes what I promised when they contracted for the year. The Freedmen are doing much better than any one expected at the commencement of the year and have done about two thirds work of what they did when Slaves.
I have two schools now under my charge one at Mt Meigs numbering about forty schollas and one at Cubapatition [[?]] Macon County numbering about Sixty schollars. The Negroes are very anxious to have their children educated and my opinion is that their ought to be more schools for them.