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Baker Co. Ga. Oct 1st/66

Genl. Tilson

My dear Sir
I am a native Georgan and have no particular regard for the freedmen more than to see him well fed, well worked, well paid and not imposed upon, particularly by them who should protect and defend them. The Agents for this County (for we have two since the death of the regularly constituted Agt) are imposing heavy fines upon the freedmen for trivial offenses, which they appropriate to themselves, requiring the planter to make the deduction from the freedmans wages and holding him (The planter) responsible to them for the agt hired them such a law or regulation in your department if not it would be well to see that justice is done the freedmen in this County in respect to this, as the Agents are now urging settlements which will soon be made if not ordered otherwise. They boast that they are making from ten to fifty dollars per day and have now charged against the planters several thousand dollars in haste & with profound regards -

Augustus Clark