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Office Agent Bureau R.F. & A L.
Greensboro Ga July 13th 1868

[[stamp]] THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE UNITED STATES [[/stamp]]

Lt. H. Catley
S A.C.

Sir,
I have the honor to report that during the month of June 1868, I examined and approved twelve copies of contracts made and entered into in the Counties of Green and Morgan. Number of Freed people included in said contracts Thirty. Average wages paid; One half the crops and find themselves, or one fourth and found by employers ther age of yearly or monthly pay; from Forty to fifty dollars for the former and from four to seven dollars for the Later, and found, in the case of house servants as women.

The general treatment of Freed people in these Counties (Taliaferro Greene and Morgan) is not very good. It seems that a large portion of the farmers, especially the rich, use every means in their power to defraud the colored people out of their just dues, either by charging them with more than they actually received or by charging them exorbitant prices for what they are compelled to buy from their employers. The General conduct of Freed people toward their employers is very good, except where they have been defrauded out of their dues as above stated when in over,