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Sick, Old and Infirm 
None are reported.

Schools 
The Agent suggests a visit of inspection to the several schools in his sub-District which at present are not as flourishing as they should be owing in a great measure to the discouragement they receive from the planters.

Marriage Relations 
The morality of the freedpeople has become very much degenerated with regard to their marital duties; they marry and afterwards abandon one another without the least cause, especially in the rural districts.

Disposition of Whites towards Blacks 
Can be inferred from the foregoing; no direct report under this head having been made.

State laws. 
No instance of the administration of the laws is mentioned by the Agent in his report.