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partiality, by the presence of troops. 

It has been disgusting to me, to see one of them, the District Clerk, Robert Thomas, walking arm in arm and drinking with the robber and murderer, Buck Taylor. 

The state law, in regard to apprenticeship, will, in my opinion, work well in this County, while Mr. James T. Kilgo is County Judge. He has agreed, not to bring it into operation, without my consent, when colored orphan minors are regarded. 

No case has come to my knowledge, when colored people have been taken up as vagrants. The sherriff never fails to notify me, whenever he makes an arrest of a colored person.

There has been one case in regard to a colored pauper. County Judge James T. Kilgo has made the necessary arrangements for him.

The state law regulating labor, has, to my knowledge, not been brought into operation.

As a class, the freedpeople in this District, are working for a portion of the crops and have been doing well in general. They have mostly failed, when colored men obliged themselves in their contracts, to controll a number of hands, exceeding 4 or 5.

The only difficulty, I am laboring under, in the performance of my duties, is the want of troops, and, if possible,

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