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due legal notice, which gives them time to seek other homes, and advise them to locate in the neighboring country which consists to a great extent of tillable but uncultivated land. 

[[note]] Rents [[/note]]
The temporary disorganization of labor produced by the discharge of many freedmen for having voted, has on the whole proved not so disastrous as was at first imagined. It has cheapened rents - at least 50 per cent and caused many who would have lived in cities "from hand to mouth" for years to go to the country and to plant for themselves.

[[note]] Assaults [[/note]] 
Cases of assault and battery are of very infrequent occurrence. Genl. Order No 27. of March, Hd. Qrs. 3rd Mil. Dist., has disposed of the greatest source of annoyance in this particular. The breaches of peace on River Boats of which justices were heretofore unable to take cognizance, owing to their occurrence outside of the county, are now settled in accordance with the order permitting arrest and punishment of offenders wherever found. 

[[note]] Relief [[/note]]
The section of Relief adopted in Circular letter. Asst. Commissioners office. Feb. 15th 1868, was put in full force in Mobile about Mar. 1st. The municipal authority to be used as Kitchens and distributing rooms and fitted them up with countirs and water apparatus. The City also employed a superintendent and cook
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