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seems scarcely second to their desire for necessary food, wronged as thousands of them have been by unprincipled employers, and often in actual want, they have done surprisingly well in their efforts to provide school houses and their disappointment in seeing them untenanted is correspondingly great.
3 Taxation. Several complaints of double taxation and other abuses in connection with tax collecting have reached me from various quarters in my Sub Dist. Penalties are frequent laid upon freedmen because their employers have failed to give in their tax to the assessor, notwithstanding the employees had proposed to give it in for themselves. 
4 Feeling between the races. Since the late election there has been a marked difference in the treatment of the colored people by the rebels, and the most casual observer can hardly escape the conviction that very many persons desire to provoke