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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 crop and the customary amount of either."
The Crop has proven a total failure. - As a general thing the freedmen contracted for a share of the Crop. - generally one third. -

"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."
These laws have never been in force in this District

"Report the difficulties you labor under in the performance of your duties and how the same may be remedied." 
I" the want of a permanent guard, with two or three horses, that I may be enabled to send after a man. - now, I must send an order, if he chooses to come, he does if he has been guilty of anything serious as whipping or striking a freedman finds out the complaint has been made, he gets on his horse & rides off. - This District is Eighty three miles long on both sides of the Trinity River. It is an impossibility for one man unassisted to see or know all the grievances. - When I leave my Post to visit any portion of my District I am

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