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Capt Kendrick reports that he could not hear of any cases of outrages or violence. The county authorities have as yet made no provisions for the support of the paupers, and there has been some suffering in consequence. The rations forwarded Mr. McCounica will be sufficient to relieve the wants of the most needy. Mr. McCounica, our late Agent, has approved since Jany. 1st 1867, 59 contracts, embracing the names of 129 laborers. Nearly all the colored people have written contracts this year, and a majority are at work for an intrest in the crop. 
In the district under the charge of Fielding Hurst consisting of McNairy and Hardin Counties the freedpeople appear to be getting along better than formerly, that is so far as relates to the social and political rights. Capt. Kendrick after having visited McNairy County reports that there have recently been outrages committed upon the blacks by the whites, that the civil authorities are disposed and do generally deal justly with the colored people, who all spoke very highly of the intrest taken in their welfare by Mr. Hurst, our Agent. The county authorities as yet have made no provision for taking charge of the poor