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Mr. Brown reports that in his County there is a great prejudice in the minds of many persons against him as Agent of the Bureau for the following reasons: During the year 1815 a great many slaves were hired out by their owners to work for third parties,- that he has endeavored to collect pay for the freedmen from the parties who had the benefit of their services,- that in several instances he succeeded in obtaining judgments before the magistrates in favor of the colored people, but in every case an appeal was taken to the Circuit Court, and the freedmen by means of threats or inability to employ counsel have dropped the case and he has not been able to make any collection for such services. The whites blame him for endeavoring to make them pay the colored people their just dues and in consequence thereof refuse to come before him to make contracts, which accounts for his approving so few. Mr. Brown states that if it is the intention of the Bureau to make these parties pay the freedmen their their services rendered in 1865 we must send someone there to do it, as he has tried and most signally failed.

There is one colored school in the County which has one teacher employed and thirty scholars in attendance. The teacher of this school is a colored man and he has reported to Mr. Brown that some