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whites are afforded to the Bureau, and persuade the freedmen it is useless to go the Bureau to make contracts - many cases of defrauding freedmen out of their wages."

Mr. W.H. White Supt &c Obion County reports "The Civil Authorities are disposed to give the freedmen justice, but cannot adjudicate cases owing to the state of the feeling of the community. I have not discharged my duty, neither can it be done."

G.E. Green, Supt. of Madison Co. reports that "There does not seem to be much of a disposition on the part of the Civil Authorities to attend to the cases of the freedmen. Many cases of defrauding the freedmen of their wages for the year 1866, and to have made application to the magistrates in their cases, and in every instance have failed to get a hearing. The illegal bonding out of black children who have parents able to support them, by the County Courts must be attended to. Some days ago a black boy aged 12 years, was horribly murdered by one Nash Exum. This boy belonged to Exum before the war, but left him some six months ago, and hired himself to a man named Sutton. Exum took him