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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 as a portion of the crop and the customary amount of either."
Corn & cotton are the products of this District Corn is abundant but the cotton crop has been seriously injured by the worm a majority of the freedpeople are work for one third of the crop.

"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 labor law has been so often violated by the employers that I pay no regard to contracts made under its provisions only when freedmen are plaintiff. Many freed children have been taken from their parents and guardians and apprenticed by the County Judges. When ever a case of this kind comes under my observation I annul the indenture and return the child to its parents or guardians.

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

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