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Consolidated Monthly Report of Asst Sub - Asst. Commissioners of the Bureau of Refugees Freedmen and Abandoned Lands for the Memphis Sub-District, for the month of May 1867 - Lieut. Col. Fred. S. Palmer, Sub-Asst. Commissioner [[13 columned table]] | No | Agents | County | Rations issued | No. of Contracts | No. of laborers | Rate per month | No. of minors apprenticed | No. of Schools | No. of Teachers | No. of Scholars | No. of outrages | Remarks | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | Lieut. Col. F.S. Palmer | Shelby | 1064 | | | | | 18 | 37 | 2227 | | Of the rations issued 351 were to destitute persons, the balance to | | 2 | Alvin Allen | Madison | | | | | | 1 | 1 | 40 | 2 | the Colored Orphan Asylum | | 2 | Alvin Allen | Henderson | | | | | | | | | | The civil authorities do not extend that protection to the | | 2 | Alvin Allen | Decatur | | | | | | | | | | colored people which circumstances demand | | 3 | Jesse A. Brown | Henry | | | | | 5 | | | | | | | 3 | Jesse A. Brown | Benton | | | | | | | | | | The civil authorities deal justly with the freedpeople | | 3 | Jesse A Brown | Weakley | | | | | | | | | | | | 3 | Jesse A Brown | Carroll | | | | | | | | | | | | 4 | Jospeh A. Blakemore | Gibson | | | | | | | | | 3 | | | 4 | Joseph A. Blakemore | Obion | | | | | | | | | | In portions of Obion and Dyer Counties it is impossible for the | | 4 | Joseph A. Blakemore | Dyer | | | | | | | | | | freedpeople to attain their rights under the law | | 5 | J.J. Holloway | Fayette | 450 | | | | 8 | 3 | 4 | 115 | | The minors reported as apprenticed by the County Courts of Fayette | | 5 | J.J. Holloway | Hardiman | | | | | 28 | | | | | & Hardiman Counties were indentured since Jany 1st. And were reported before. | | 5 | J.J. Holloway | Haywood | | | | | | 2 | 2 | 75 | 2 | In the western part of Lauderdale & Tipton Counties it is difficult for | | 6 | J.L. Poston | {Lauderdale | | | | | | | | | | the freedpeople to obtain Justice at the lands of the civil authorities | | 6 | J. L. Poston | Tipton | | | | | | | | | | | | 7 | Fielding Hurst | McNairy | 450 | | | | | | | | | In justice of this district the Civil Authorities are powerless to | | 7 | Fielding Hurst | Hardin | | | | | | | | | | | | Total | | 1964 | | | | 41 | 24 | 44 | 2457 | 7 | | Fred S. Palmer Lieut. Col. 6th V.R.C. Sub-Asst. Commissioner
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Staff List notes a I.L. Poston. Text may be incorrect.