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Porter, if anything he is willing a court should decide"

Moses C. West Supt Marshall Co reports Nov 1st "The freedmen are generally performing their contracts faithfully with few exceptions."

D.D. Holman Supt Robertson Co. reports "It affords your Supt much pleasure to state that the feelings of the people is growing more kind towards the Bureau and the colored people than heretofore by the disposition as shown by the employer discerning to rehire for the coming year.

But few difficulties have occurred during the month, the cold people that is the greater portion of them are well reconciled and have learned the necessity of entering into written contracts for the year to avoid deception and fraud upon the part of the employers which the just and proper thinking portion declare that they