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"State the kind of crops raise, 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 - The freed people generally work on shares. In the City of San Antonio Texas they work for wages, the same varying according to the nature of the work.

"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."

State Laws are applied to the freed people in the same way as to white people.

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

Owing to the great extend of my Sub District, the same comprising five Counties, an area of about 25 square miles, I can hardly pay any attention at all to the Bu. affairs outside of this city. This may be remedied by furnishing me with Forage for my (private) horse, Requisition for a Public horse having been disapproved by the Assistant Commissioner.