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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 as a portion of the crop and the customary amount of either."
The crops for this hear have nearly all consisted of Cotton & Corn on the whole the new crop has been good the Cotton averages about one [[?]] but very few of the freedpeople work for monthly wages though in my opinion if the Planters would or could pay their hands by the month the laborer would work better and give greater satisfaction.

"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." 
Perhaps my greatest difficulty is getting the Civil Authorities to act and to take up a case for a Freedman. they say that the freed people are too poor, that they cannot pay the costs of a Suit or in certain cases give the necessary securities. This perhaps is true But yet they jump with avidity at a case against a Freedman the