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than the same class of blacks. I have requested the Boards of Police of the various counties to furnish me with statistics buy they have failed to do so.
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[[Left Margin]]Number of Rations issued and to what class of people.[[/Left Margin]]
The rations furnished to the destitute under authority of joint resolution of Congress approved March 2nd 1867. have been issued through the Boards of Police of the various counties. The total number of pounds of Porc issued to this date are 3553. pounds of Corn are 21947. of which 824 pounds of Pork and 5585 pounds of Corn were issued to 142 Whites and 14 Freedmen in Lowndes County, 810 pounds Porc and 5502 pounds Corn to 122 Whites and 34 Freedmen in Winston County, 368 pounds Pork and 2660 pounds Corn to 62 Whites and 5 freedmen in Noxubee County, 403 pounds of Corn and 1120 pounds Corn to 76 Whites in Monroe County, 748 pounds Pork and 4802 pounds Corn to 85 Whites and 11 freedmen in Oktibeha County and 400 pounds Pork and 2278 pounds Corn to 87 whites in Chickasaw County. The counties of Winston and Noxubee have since been detached from this district. Whole number in district to whoom rations have been issued, whites 574 Freedmen 64. The municipal authorities distributing the rations, inform me, in answer to my enquiries, that they gave due notice of the receipt and of the time for the distribution of rations, that no distinction was made in color, but that the reason of the great excess of whites was that but few freedmen made application for assistance and that the greater amount of destitution is among the whites. The reasons assigned for the application for relief in most cases is from the loss of male members of families during the war. One of the causes I apprehend to be for the excess of whites is that the colored people have always been educated to work while the whites have not & therefore the colored people are better prepared for the present condition of affairs that the whites.
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[[Left Margin]]Schools their condition[[/Left Margin]]
The number of schools in this district so far as I can learn is not less than 30. of which only eight make reports to this office. Most of those conducted 
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by Northern teachers have closed for the summer. I find the freedmen everywhere fully alive to the importance of education and while their interest in this matter is steadily increasing, the whites from motives of policy exhibit [[Strikethrough]]ed[[/Strikethrough]] a willingness to encourage them in their efforts and I am called upon almost daily by persons soliciting the assistance and influence of the Bureau towards establishing schools on their plantations What now is most needed is teachers. 
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[[Left Margin]]ritial.  tions he dmen.[[/Left Margin]]
There is perhaps more or very slightl improvement in the maritial relations, of the freedmen since my last report: Slavery produced an evil which is almost an ingredient and radical component of the colored race to this day, I refer to the system of "taking up" with husbands or wifes as often as fancy chooses & disregarding all marriage ties. This is an evil which perhaps is not increasing but I fear cannot be entirely eradicated by laws however rigerous, but I [[Strikethrough]]fear cannot[[/Strikethrough]] only by a correct system of education giving to them enlightment and refinement instead of ignorance.
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[[Left Margin]]position e Whites rds the edpeople[[/Left Margin]]
The majority of whites appear outwardly to entertain a friendly disposition toward the colored people which I would judge to be sincere were it not that they are so prone to cheat and deceive them when an opportunity offers, however this unfair spirit exhibited by the whites, does not extend to bodily harm, but on the contrary exhibits itself in the form of an alliance to prevent the freedmen from ever accumulating any property. The whites seem to be governed entirely by what they deem self interest which as the case may be, commands a friendly or unfriendly disposition.
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[[Left Margin]]mplaints trages.[[/Left Margin]]
The complaints now made at this office consist principally threatened violence and driving off from plantations desertions by husband or wife for the recovery of last years wages, not furnishing the proper allowance of rations, and some few cases of actual [[Strikethrough]]allowance[[/Strikethrough]] violence, Another               

Transcription Notes:
Left margin items on right side of page are cut off. In section VII it's likely "maritial relations of the freedmen" section VIII "disposition of the Whites towards the Freedpeople" and in section IX "Complaints & Outrages"