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Government. After their arrival in this City, the planter distributed Fifty dollars ($50.-) among them. The largest amount any one received was one dollar, and twenty five cents ($1.25), and from that down to fifty cents (.50), some receiving nothing.  One peck of dry corn per week was the only ration furnished the farm hands.

Beaufort District
It is stated that the Superior Provost Court here is outrageously unjust towards freedmen, and Northern whites whenever they are opposed by secessionists. That the Court being violently secession in sentiment, while allowing negro testimony, gives it no weight whatever if white witnesses appear on the other side.  A case is reported where a horse in the possession of a freedman, was taken from him and given to a late rebel soldier, the cost of Court (ten dollars ($10-)) being adjudged against the freedman, although the freedman brought full proof that the horse came into his possession a long time previous to the date, given by the soldier as the time he lost him. In another case, the defendant, lost his horse and was kept in jail ten (10) days, in