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"State the kind of crops raised and condition of the
same; whether the freed people work for monthly wages or a portion of the crop and the customary amount of either."

Cotton and corn are the chief products raised freed people work for part of the crop the customary amounts one third of the crop and one fourth of the cotton.

"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."

The State laws are but in [[indifferently?]] enforced as regards the freed people

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

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