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[[con]]siderable amount of suffering and privation amongst the freedmen. This especially will be the case in this city and in my opinion some provision should be made by the Bureau to assist these people through the coming winter. Many freedmen who have been at work in the country the past year, will after finding that their labor has brought them in but little or nothing, will refrain to this City. Some of whom may make a precarious living, while the majority will, unless assisted, resort to crime for the purpose of Keeping soul and body together. 

In Hardin County the Superintendent, Mr. Thomas Maxwell, reports that "The Bureau is not regarded by the rebels and copperheads in that part of the Country." He also states that the whites are not disposed to enter into written contracts with the freedmen and that they have to accept any proposition that is made to them in order to obtain a livelihood. 

Mr. G.E. Green, Superintendent for Madison County, states that: "Those who worked under contracts, approved by the agent, as a general thing have comp[[lied]]