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[[strikethrough]] after they have carried after they carried them; [[/strikethrough]]

"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."

No crops are raised in this District of much consequence, the employment of the freed people is that of house servants, some are mechanics others employed by stock raisers, others have teams and wagons, or carts of their own, they are allowed to manage their own affairs in most cases, with the advice not to work for those who do not treat them well, pay them well, and feed them well.

"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 laws are allowed to be put into opperation here, that opperate against the colored people, in affecting their rights.

The colored people are generally very well behaved, industrious, and civil, there is at this time much interest in religion, they observed thanksgiving day, by publick worship - which is more than any denomination of white people did.

"Report the difficulties you labor under in the performance of your duties and how the same may be remedied."

I have none, - Excepting the payment for supplies, and the necessary incidental expences of the Detachment at this Post - wood, Transportation, and every other unavoidable expences, I have paid out of my own pocket, since April 1st 1867 and have not been able to get one dollar refunded as yet, and my salary remains unpaid for the months of August, September, October, and November - nor have the men been paid, for 6 or 7 months -