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-- | a flogging. A practice prevails in some plantations of issuing to each hand a quart of whiskey every Saturday night which is the cause of great demoralization among the freedmen.

Detitution | This district being comparatively a wealthy one applications from detitutes for food are very few in number. [[/table]]

Conclusion

A can add little more to this detailed report than to say that in every instance of outrage committee prompt investigation has been ordered and the guilty parties arrested or compelled to fly the country to avoid merited punishment.

Instructions have been given (as heretofore reported) to all sub assistant commissioners and