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State of feeling on the part of citizens to the Freedmen, and the Bureau, also views and suggestions of the Superintendent 
There is no change to note in the feeling of citizens toward the Bureau and freedmen, since my last report. 
James Ware Supt. at Cleveland Tenn reports as follows: "The freedmen with few exceptions are getting along very well, although owing to the partial failure of the crops in this section last season, and the inability of a great many colored people to make a crop, on account of not having stock &c, a good many of them are in a destitute condition, a great many colored people have moved here from Georgia and I find them invariably without anything in the world to sustain themselves 
The Circuit Court for Bradley County has been in session during two weeks of the past month, and in my opinion done justice to all colored persons who were interested