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employ them & at rates far beyond what they can expect them to be worth, judging their future by the past. If they do not get good wages, it is because no man believes there is any reliance to be placed in them. It is a pity that the authorities had not ordered them all back to their old masters, at least for next year. This would have solved a difficulty with them & with us. We could have made our arrangements with certainty - entered into fair contracts with them, and prevented a vast amount amount of misery to them as well as saved much to the government  
Thanking you for yr attention to my complaint
I am Genl respty 
Yr obt servt
A C Walker