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better to work for wages as but little cotton is cultivated here, and no market for small grain in this section. freedmen can purchase their provission much easier than they can find a market for their crops they can neither sell nor trade their grain for cash or goods.

As to written contracts with the freed men the employers have it all their own way, and treat the orders and requirements of the Freedmen's Bureau with contempt

The necessity for crops at this and other points I stated in an an application to head quarters.

I have absent from office four days during the month dividing the cotton and settling with the planters for an behalf of the freedmen. 

Very respectfully
A. Evans,
Capt. and Sub Asst Commissioner

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