Viewing page 35 of 286

This transcription has been completed. Contact us with corrections.

on the return of Chaplain Lawrence.

Between twenty and thirty colored men are in the County jail awaiting trial but have been placed there by due legal process.

Magistrate and higher courts are beginning to pay more attention to the legal rights of cold men, and generally their condition is brightening"

Capt Geo. E. Judd Supt Giles Co reports Oct 31st "I do not think there is any ill feeling toward the Bureau or its Agent. because the Agent has so little power that he amounts to nothing.

The whites are getting along very well with the negroes, often there are little troubles between them, but the negro will often give up after warrants are issued if it cannot be finished up in one day.

The state of society is full as