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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 crops and the customary amount of either."

Freedmen contemplate planting the most of their ground to corn on account of the failure of the last years Cotton crop and the extreme low price of the same. They will work for a portion of the crop as last year, the most of them remaining on the plantations they ocupied last year.

"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 change in regard to the application of the State laws as regards Freedmen. They are not enforced, like most of the other laws of the State.

Very Respectfully
Your Obdt. Servt,
Hiram Clark
Sub Asst. Com.

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

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