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paid for plows, hoes, mule harness, garden seeds &c. for the freedmen home farms at Little Rock & Pine Bluff Ark.

Freights & Insurance. Nine hundred and seventy nine dollars & forty nine cents ($979.49.) This amount was paid at the General Office for freights and insurance on freedmens goods.

Contingent Expenses. Seven thousand seven hundred and thirty one dollars and nineteen cents. ($7.731.19). This amount was paid Agents and others employed in Freedmen's Dep't; travelling expenses, Office furniture, fixtures, stationery, stamps, postage on printed matter, blanks &c. from Sep't 14th 1864 to June 30, 1865.

I was among the freedmen a great deal, endeavored to ascertain their true condition, told them I been sent by you and that I desired to hear complaints if they had any to make; that I would so far as it lay in my power correct or cause to be corrected abuses of every nature. I conversed freely with hundreds of the most intelligent; took them one side and talked with them separately and alone. The universal opinion expressed by the masses every where I went was to the effect that they were doing well - had few complaints to make - seemed full of energy and spirit - did not wish the Government to support them but desired to work and earn money for themselves. They only wished to understand clearly what their rights and privileges were as freedmen and assurance that the Government and its Agents would sustain them in the new order of things. I