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upon the freedmen of this County during the month of Oct" is that of the murder of James Drake & the wound of his Wife Eliza Drake on or about the Evening of the 1st near Brentwood Tenn. 
As you personally conducted the investigation of this case and are thoroughly conversant with all the particulars of the same I deem it a superfluity to set it forth at large in this report.

The financial condition of the freedmen at present is excellent. Labor is plenty at fair wages throughout the Country with an increasing demand for the same which caused numbers to remove from the City within the past month.

The Schools of the City and County are prospering finely and but few of our colored children have. not already availed themselves of the same.

The late incumbants of the various City offices are also acting in a most generous manner toward the freedmen giving them numerous positions of honor, trust &c

Henry A Eastman, Agent at Columbia Tenn reports.

The number of complaints made at this office have been 17. Three of these being Assaults, such as beatings &c. The balance are complaints against persons owning land & undertaking to deprive the laborer of his or her wages. These