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food clothing and Medicine for forty-six (46) Inmates of the Hospt at his place.

Since learning of the condition of several indigent, infirm people, I am worried that the issue of fort rations of corn, and bacon with discretion, is the only way to prevent suffering, until the present growing crop is to some extent matured; in view of this I made a requisition on the chief Commissary for a small supply.

The expenditures for the repairing of the School building, belonging to the American Missionary Association, at this place, as authorized by S. day S. O. No 26, is progressing as rapidly as circumstances will admit. The band known as the Ku Klux Klan, created considerable excitement in this Sub Dist, a few weeks ago, which I have to a great extent succeeded in allaying: but many persons use every means at their command to harass, and frighten the colored people without offending the law. On the 25th inst one Chas Hinds, made an unprovoked assault with an iron bar, upon a colored man in Calhoun County. Hinds is at present confined in Jail in Calhoun County, awaiting the result of the