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default of payment of costs, being finally released on the protest of the Agent. Since the protest of the Agent was sufficient to release the Defendant, it would seem as if the Court must have been conscious of injustice done the freedmen.  A great many freedmen are in the District who have been laboring for Planters in the interior of the State and who have now sent them to the coast without pay (either in money or provisions) for the summer work. As under existing orders the Agents cannot help them, uni-versal thievery is already a first consequence of their destitution. 

Barnwell District
Here a Grocer is reported as killing a freedman, The murderer has not yet been captured but his store and property have been taken possession of by the Bureau. A soldier is reported as wounding a freedman for resisting [[?]] him. What cause the soldier had to interfere with the freedman is not stated. Both these cases are being investigated by a Board of Officers. The disposition shown by the planters to turn off the freedmen without compensation for