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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."

Wheat and corn, are the principal crops raised, wheat crop this year a failure, corn & oats best ever raised. As a general thing worked for a portion of the crop. 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."

The state laws as applied Freed people so far have been a perfect nullity.

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

The great difficulty I labor under in the performance of my duties is the excessive rebellious attitude taken by the people its only by the harshest measures that I can do anything  I'm sorry to see that this spirit is much more plainly exhibited than up to 1st of September 1867. Things have reached such a state here that when I make an arrest for some overt act that may have been committed I am publicly threatened with a fate similar to Capt Culver who was killed at Cotton Gin Texas. These threats are of daily occurrence, they come from men of the highest