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During the month of April about one hundred and fifty complaints were entertained, the majority being for ordinary civil cases, such as withholding of wages assault &c. This class of cases are very easily dealt with with under the law, by reference to Justices of the Peace, and they are becoming in consequence, of rarer occurrence.
 
The practice of closing accounts with freedmen by summarily driving them off is not so much complained of as formerly in Mobile County, but it prevails in Baldwin where law seems to be at a low estimate. 

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The freedmen generally are becoming familiar with the manner of bringing their complaints before ordinary courts and have further learned to discriminate between law officers who are not likely to be swayed by prejudice and those who are. In this particular I have no special recommendations to make except that it might be well to order an inspection of the officials of Baldwin Cy. with a view to a few changes.
 
Since the last election complaints come in daily from freedmen threatened with ejectment for failure to pay house rent. In these instances we can only secure 
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