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[[left margin]]Labor[[/left margin]]

has been particularly looked after, and will average 2/3 of the entire crop planted. The system of 2 and 3 days labor has proved detrimental, in my opinion to the interest of Employer and Employee. In my visits to plantations under such contracts, I made it a point to explain to the Freedmen, my fears of their loss, from illness, and leaving their crops to work on the farms of others, for a pittance per day, when eventually in most cases, they are receiving Government rations.  

[[left margin]]health[[/left margin]]
The health of St Pauls and St Andrews is fairly good.

[[left margin]]Destitute[[/left margin]]
There are a good number of old and infirm Freedpeople who require regular assistance from the Bureau, - the supply is inadequate to meet the demands. However with Soup, Cakes and Potatoes, (which they are beginning to like) I manage to keep starvation off.

It is necessary for the Government interest, that I should be in the Country as often as possible, therefore my City Office report of business will be on the decrease until I can get affairs well regulated, which requires no little exertion."

Mr Garrett Nagle, Agent at Kingstree reports:
"Several freedmen and women who entered into contract last January with planters in this District to work during the present year in the cultivation of their plantations, and were by the terms of their agreement to receive a potion of the produce of the same,