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For its full and fair investigation I shall need the services and information of a gentleman now absent, but whose return may be looked for in 8 or 10 days.

Sergeant McMahon and six (6.) privates are stationed at this post. They are very orderly and intelligent fellows, and the great prejudices manifested on their arrival is gradually giving away. Their continued presence is altogether necessary, necessary in every possible point of view for simply the sight of a Blue Coat is sufficient, in many instances, to repress a disposition to commit crime. Their presence is guarantee that I can and will maintain public peace and good order. And so the B'hoys take their whisky in silence and mutter their curses, if any, to themselves. 

I have noticed but one application of the apprentice Law to Freedman. In that case its application and execution was not just both Jr and boy, nor full but partial. At the proper time I will act in the matter according to orders recd. 

The Freedpeople are working generally for a portion of the crops. Very few for wages. Since the establishment of this office they seem to be greatly encouraged and work well having an assurance of protection and 

Transcription Notes:
"B'hoy" 1846, U.S. colloquial for "spirited lad, young spark," representing a supposed Irish pronunciation of boy. https://www.etymonline.com/word/b'hoy ---------- Reopened for Editing 2023-04-26 13:09:18