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Consolidated Monthly Report of County Superintendents' of the Bureau Refugees Freedmen and Abandoned Lands for the Memphis Sub=District for the Month of January 1867 - Lieut Col. Fred S. Palmer Chief Superintendent [[18 columned table]] | No. | Superintendent | County | Issued Rations | Issued Clothing | Issued Medicines | No. of contracts made | No. of Laborers | Rate per Mo | 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 on blacks | No. of arrests made for outrages committed on blacks by whites | Remarks of County Superintendent | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | Lt Col F. S Palmer | Shelby | 744 | | | 17 | 101 | ½ crop 1.75 | | | | 29 | 1667 | 12 | 1 | 1 | Numerous complaints by fredmen being defrauded out of their wages for last year | | 2 | J. J. Holloway | Fayette | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Freedmen making their new contracts without consulting the Agent | | 3 | J.G. Hester | Weakly | | | | 6 | 6 | $7.00 | | | 1 | | | | | | Freedmen getting along well. Whites generally paying them up for their services | | 4 | G.E. Green | Madison | | | | 53 | 178 | 12.50 | | | | | | | | | | | 5 | S. H. Melcher | Fayette | | | | 14 | 28 | share of crop | | | | 1 | 25 | 1 | | | Freedmen are generally indisposed to make contracts before the Bureau | | 6 | Jesse A Brown | Henry | | | | 10 | 10 | 10 to $15 | | | 5 | 1 | 30 | 1 | | | The Bureau states that he cannot do any good for the freedmen as Agent, and asks to be relieved if thought advisable | | 7 | W.C. McConnico | Lauderdale | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Nothing has transpired since my last report worth notice | | 8 | Joseph A. Blakemore | Gibson | | | | 72 | 130 | 7 to 12 | | | | | | | | | But little interest is exhibited by the freedmen on the subject of education | | 9 | Andrew Neely | Carroll | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Matters are going tolerably well. Contracts are more liberal this year than last | | 10 | R.C. Scott | Haywood | | | | 150 | 400 | ½ of crop | | | 3 | | | | | | Civil Courts are not disposed to give the freedmen justice in suits between the, & the whites | | 11 | J.D. Ussury | Hardiman | | | | 82 | 258 | 100 to 200 year ⅓ to ½ crop | | | | | | | | | State of affairs are as good in this County as any in the South | | 12 | R.P. Haley | Burton | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | No Report received | | 13 | W.H. White | Obion | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | No Report received | | 14 | J.R. Bledsoe | Tipton | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | No Report received | | 15 | | Henderson | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | No Agent | | 16 | | Dyer | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | No Agent | | 17 | Thos Maxwell | Hardin | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | No Report received | | 18 | Houstin Roberts | Decatur | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | No Report received | | 19 | Fielding Hurst | McNairy | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | No Report received | | | Total | | 744 | | | 404 | 100 | | | | 9 | 31 | 1722 | 14 | 2 | 1 | | Fred S. Palmer Lieut Col 6th Regt V.R.C. and Chief Supt.
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The writing on the bottom right corner is giving me trouble. Other than that, there are only a few words here and there (most of them names) that I couldn't read.