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"State the kind of crops raised and the condition of the same; whether the freed people work for monthly wages or a portion of the crops and the customary amount of either."
freedpeople are generally working for a portion of the crop, one half and feed themselves or one third and fed are the customary rates.  cotton corn potatoes and  sugar cane are the principal products.

"Include in your Report the operations of the State laws as applied to freed people, with special reference to the Apprentice Law, Vagrant Law, and Law regulating labor." 
No case of the apprentice or Vagrant Law although there are some vagrants

"Report the difficulties you labor under in the performance of your duties and how the same may be remedied." 
There are not enough troops on duty of this place and I experience great difficulty in sending any distance to arrest men not having any horses