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The special reports that I have from time to time forwarded to the Asst. Comr. for his information and consideration referring principally to the conduct of the Agents of the Bureau and their administration of affairs appertaining thereto, leaves but little else to say now.

I found wherever I went that the freedpeople were working well, - better than any previous year since their freedom.

I have observed that each succeeding year they have done better and better and complaints that "the nigger wont work" are getting to be as rare as they were common the first and second year the experiment of free labor was tried.

It is not strange that in the intoxication wrought by their sudden emancipation they should have done many strange wild and