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properly I should have appointed office days on each County seat; say every third Saturday at Fairfield, Springfield and Corsicana and the third and fourth at Cotton Brier it would enable the colored people to acquaint me with their troubles, would assist me in establishing schools and would no doubt have a good effect generally as I would be going through my sections all the time. On the other hand parties will have to come from one to one hundred miles to transact business and will cause discontent among the freedmen and counteract my efforts to one point solely. I would therefore respectfully request that I be allowed a house, properly equipped for such service. My office hours have been from early morning till 8 and 9 at night and I have been absent from it but about two hours on one day to talk to some freemen who [[strikethrough]] who [[/strikethrough]] were growing disorderly on a neighboring plantation.

The apprentice laws and the laws regulating labors enacted by the regular session of the eleventh Legislative of this state have in no instances been applied to freedmen in this County. The other Counties I am waiting for orders to proceed through us.

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