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for their Services a share of the crop varying usually from one third to one half of the net proceeds, depending generally on whether the laborer supplies himself with rations or furnishes animals.

In cases where the labor is performed for stated wages there appears to be but little difficulty in settling the accounts of the freedman, as it is generally easily proven what amount of money he has received and the amount due by him to his employer for supplies furnished.

The case is much more complicated when the freedman is to receive a portion of the net proceeds of the crop; (and this latter was an arrangement recommended by my predecessor Maj Genl T. J. Wood.) 

In such cases there is much