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last fall that hospital or home of refuge of some kind would be established, and $1000. were paid over by Bt Maj Genl Fisk to aid the county in any philanthropic enterprise that might be determined upon. but aside from a most beggarly poor house located in a place that is next to inaccessable, nothing has been done for the relief of the poor.

Perhaps no city in the civilized world is in a worse condition as it respects institutions of charity, than Nashville. For this reason many poor must still obtain relief from the Bureau and from these noble representatives of northern charity located in our midst. The number of poor in the city among the freemen. I mean paupers is not great. Even women with large families of small children are working their way nobly.

Very few of the freedmen in this county have ever labored under yearly contracts- the few made last year have been pretty generally observed by both parties- A few instances of gross injustice have come to my knowledge.

The freedmen are pretty fairly treated in the Recorders court in this city at present. Magistrates, however, are doing them injustice by the readiness with which they commit them to jail on trivial charges of larceny. But at present this evil can only be mitigated by