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Consolidated Monthly Report of Bureau Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands for the Memphis Sub. District for the Month of November 1866
Lieut. Col. Fred S. Palmer Chief Supt.

[[18 Columned Table]]
| No | Superintendent | County | Issued Rations | Issued Clothing | Issued Medicine | No of contacts made | No of laborers | Rate per month  | No of fines | No of forfeitures | No of minors apprenticed | No of teachers | No of scholars | No of schools | No of outrages committed by whites upon blacks | No of arrests made for outrages committed upon blacks by whites | Remarks of County Superintendents |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |

| 1 | Lt. Col. F. S. Palmer | Shelby |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   | 15 | 689 | 11 |   |   | When properly represented before the Court the Freedmen stand the same chance with a white man of the same means and inteligence in the city of Memphis |

| 2 | J. J. Holloway | Fayette |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   | Under the workings of the Civil Courts as the law now stands the freedmen can hardly be expected in all cases to get protection in his rights as to person and property |

| 3 | S. H. Melcher | Fayette |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   | The Civil Courts do not give the freedmen proper protection |

| 4 | J. R. Bledsoe | Tipton |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   | Civil Authorities are disposed to do justice to the freedmen in person & property |

| 5 | H. G. Hester | Weakley |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |  
 |   |   |   |   |   | The freedmen are protected by the same laws as the whites no difference is made as to person or property |

| 6 | Anderson Neely | Carroll |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |  |   |   |   |   |   | The Civil Courts are giving justice to the freedmen when cases are brought before them |

| 7 | G. E. Green | Madison |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   | There has been several cases where the freedmen have applied to the magistrates for protection under the laws but they do not show a willingness to assist them. |

| 8 | J. D. Ussery | Hardiman |   |   |   | 2 | 6 |   |   |   |  |   |   |   |   |   | All is going on quietly. |

| 9 | R. C. Scott. | Haywood |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   | The Civil Authorities have come far short of doing justice to the freedmen |

| 10 | J. A. Blakemore | Gibson |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   | No report received |

| 11 | W. C. McConnico | Lauderdale |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   | No report received |

| 12 | Fielding Hurst | McNairy |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   | The Civil Authorities are divided about one half are disposed to do the freedmen justice |

| 13 | R. P. Haley | Benton |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   | No report received |

| 14 |   | Dyer  |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   | No Agent |

| 15 | Sam'l Howard | Henderson  |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   | No report received |

| 16 | Thos. Maxwell | Hardin |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   | 1 | 25 | 1 |   |   | No report received |

| 17 | J. H. Brown | Henry |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   | 2 |   |   |   |   |   | The Civil Courts extend protection to the freedmen the same as to the white persons |

| 18 | Houston Roberts | Decatur |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |  |   |   |   |   |   |   | No report received |

| 19 | W. H. White | Obion |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   | No report received |

|   | Total |   |   |   |   | 2 | 6 |   |   |   | 2 | 16 | 712 | 12 |   |   |   |


Fred. S. Palmer
Lieut. Col. 6th V.R.C. 
Chief Supt