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to justice.

The County Officers have not yet taken charge of the indigent infirm an sick Freedpeople now supported by the U.S. Government in this place, although notified by Surgeon S.J.W. Mintzer that after the first of the present month the County would have to maintain an take care of them.

Allow me to call your attention to this fact, that reliable information from the interior an distant portions of the state, makes it evident that in many places the negroes are denied their just rights, defrauded of their wages with impunity, an are often retained by force on the plantations where they were once slaves: an that man who dare to hire them an pay them a fair compensation are threatened with violence by their former owners.

Very Respectfully
Your Obt. Servt

Byron Porter
Capt A.A.G. of Vols.
Sub Asst. Com

Transcription Notes:
S. J. W. Mintzer, Surgeon-in-Chief,