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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.

Very little farming done in this district, freed people generally employed for monthly or dayly wages, or at trades

"Include in your report the operation of the state laws as applied to freed people, with special reference to the Apprentice Law. Vagrant Law, and Law regulating labor.'

The freed people enjoy equal rights under the civil law; no colored children are Apprenticed to white people, as nine times in ten, they would be treated as slaves. 

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

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