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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.

Corn and Cotton, principally corn of which the crops look fine. Cotton looks very well. The freedmen principally work for portion of the the 1/3 & 1/2 - few for wages.

"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."

Not in Operation in this County.

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

I labor under any difficulties at present.