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General Order No 3 Head Quarters Dist of Alabama
                                  
Forty (40) Settlements with Freedmen have been made at this office, by their Employers before me, all of which have been settled just and equitably.
                                        
Complaints are being made by Freedmen that their Employers (who leased lands) have nothing that they can attach to secure pay for this years labor, their Crop & Stock having been taken for rent and supplies.
                                        
There is a report among the Freedmen, in which they are made to believe that they are not to employ themselves until after the 4th day of February, this report is said to originate from persons who are making political speeches, in different parts of this Sub District

I am Colonel
Very Respectfully
Your Obdt Servant
Jno. C. Hendrix
Sub Asst Commissioner