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The report then goes on to state "that near this place is one owned by Mr Jenkins on which an opposite mode of treatment is pursued, the Freed People working three days out of the week for wages, fifty cents per task paid in corn at two dollars per bushel and bacon at twenty five cents per pound The remainder of the week the people are allowed to cultivate for themselves as much land as they can manage the land being furnished free of rent by Mr Jenkins"
Allow me to remark that the "opposite mode of treatment" here described is precisely the same in principle as that on Mr Underwoods farm with the exception that Underwood never charged more than two dollars and sixty cents per bushel for corn, while Mr Jenkins had never charged less than three dollars and in the one place the people are bound to work three days each week for the planter and in the other about two hours each day and have all the rest of their time to themselves in both cases
I will here remark that Mr Jenkins contract provides that the freedmen shall receive "fair and reasonable wages for the labor performed for him." When his hands complained at the price of corn, he proposed to pay them in cash for each days labor of two hours and leave it to the Bureau to decide what amount would be fair wages The decision was that seventy five cents per day and rations would be fair. but the freedmen refused to work at such a price and returned to the task system with pay in provisions
Again the report states that "An examination of