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There is no disposition either on the part of white or colored people to call on the Superintendent for aid or counsel.

J.K. Nelson. Supt Rutherford Co reports
"There has been much trouble between the freedmen and their employers, in settling for their past years services 
Many of each party especially of the freedmen have sought advice from me on this subject, and I have always been careful to favor the latter, and have succeeded in settling some cases where my advice was willingly taken by both parties, with much more justice to the freedmen than could have been had before the courts.
I have been successful in some cases brought before the Justices mostly trivial. The most important was for George Ware (cold) against a white man named Smith, for a balance of Seventy-four Dollars due him for a horse for which Smith refused to give his note and this amount had been due a fortnight before the suit was brought against him. Judgement was rendered against Smith for the full amount and