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Concerning the state laws as passed by the last session of the Legislature I will say this that they are a Dead Letter upon the statute Books, nobody pays any attention to them

I have revoked several [[strikethrough]] cases [[/strikethrough]] cases, where Freedmen were bound out under provisions of the Apprentice law passed Oct. 17th /66,

I have also talked with the different County judges in this District and all have agreed that in case it becomes necessary for them, to bind out or apprentice orphans, or homeless Freed children they will give particular attention to the subject of education, causing the man, or person, to whom the child is bound, to give bonds, that the child shall be educated, in reading writing & the fundamental rules of Arithmetic &c. there is no attention whatever paid to the vagrant law or Labor, law. passed respectively, Nov. 8., & Nov 1st 1866,,

The freedmen of my District is as a generality working for a part of the crops, and as a general thing they work very well, the most of them

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