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been assaulted and brutally beaten by whites; applications have been made in all such cases to the Civil Authorities for the arrest of the parties so assaulting and their trial by the courts; in every instance these people have been discharged upon payment of costs, or a mere nominal fine imposed.

Applications for relief. 
have been greater in number than in last report. Very few whites apply for rations. Rations are not issued until satisfactory proof is given that parties applying are actually destitute and supplies are then given only in such quantities as to temporarily relieve their sufferings.  
Nearly 50 per cent of the applications (freedmen) are strong able bodied men and women, who have been led to believe (by unprincipled persons) that the Government was bound to furnish them with rations.  In all such instances advice was