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have been doing well the past month; the Courts are of easy access to them and in the City of Memphis justice is dispensed regardless of color. In the rural districts, however, in some sections the same old prejudice still exists and it is next to impossible for them to attain their rights; this fact having become known to them, they bring most of their suits before the City Courts.

The City and County authorities of their Hospitals continue to Secure patients regardless of color, and the County is extending aid with a liberal hand to the poor and destitute.

The sanitary condition of the City of Memphis is not what it should be and no efforts have been made successfully during the past month to improve its conditions. Several Boards of health have been appointed, but as their efforts and recommendations have not been sustained or approved by the Board of Alderman they have successively resigned. The mortality in the City is very great but it is almost impossible to give the exact number of deaths. About 350 colored persons, men, women and children have been buried in the "Beauregard Freedmen Cemetery" alone, besides the number that have been interred at other Cemeteries, during the past month. Unless the