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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.

Cotton and corn in good condition. prospect of a large crop. One third and one half the compensation offered.

"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."

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

I am over run by bands of marauders am confined to the limits of the corporation during daytime, at night am safe no place. Midnight alarms are frequent strange men heavily armed occupy the town day and night. Not less than twenty soldiers are required to keep peace, ten would only be an

Transcription Notes:
corporation = town