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about unfair settlements, admonish us to be rigid in the examination and approval of contracts this spring. In this way the recurrence of future difficulties may be avoided.
With the general condition of affairs at the Springs I am much pleased. The planters are hopeful, the freedmen industrious The great scarcity of labor has brought with it protection to the freedmen. Many of the aged and helpless freedmen have been furnished homes because they had relations able to work and in order to secure the able-bodied, the planters have taken in the infirm also. 

I returned from Union Springs to Girard en route for Eufaula Ala. After waiting six hours for a boat, my order of Transportation was flatly and persistently refused by Milo Booker commander, Steamer "Hard Times" and also by his clerk. These orders for Transportation were properly made out by Lieut L. R. Tahner