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though I must regret an apparent want of interest in this matter on the part of the colored people. They do not seem to fully appreciate the advantage and necessity of temperance. My utmost endeavors are employed to impress their minds with the importance of this subject, and hope eventually to be able to get them fully alive to its advantages.

John Enoch, Agent for the Counties of Humphries, Hickman, Lewis and Perry, Tenn, thus reports July 31st 1867.

The freedmen of this Sub District have been as a general thing industrious and economical in their money matters, and in making their crops, have done all that could have been wished for and are likely to be well compensated for their labor. 

H.C. McQuiddy, Agent for the counties of Macon and Sumner Tenn, reports as follows.

Nathan White Ptf. Col'd Vs. Giles Jones Deft. Ptf left work on Wednesday