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have.  In a large number of cases no contracts were made the Freedpeople being told such was not necessary, these I give a most thorough examination and compel the parties to act justly.  A number of cases have come under my observation. I here the employers have paid the Freedpeople for all last years work by giving them a miserable little horse not worth the ammunition it would take to kill it.  I have made a diligent search into the action of the Civil Authorities during the year just ended (1866) with the following result. Five cases came under my observation. Two for thefts both parties Freedpeople Defts in jail awaiting trial by District Court.  One for theft tried and convicted.  The remaining one was acquired for & the parties compromising, except in the two first cases in which all the parties are Freedmen no case is on record in which the Freedman is plaintiff.  The feeling of the white citizens towards the Freedpeople and Bureau is that of the most intense hatred.  Were it not for the Bureau theirs would be a sad, sad lot.  They are threatened that when the Bureau is removed they will be whipped and held in worse slavery than before, which would most undoubtedly be the case.  They are in many cases prevented