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in debt and did not know where the payment was to come from. They are feeding the poor on trust, drawing on those who have produce in hopes of 
paying from the yield of taxes as yet uncollected; they claim to feed all the poor who apply. The Alms house is a small unrelated concern, and contains only 5 inmates; sixty five white and fifteen colored people are subsistent at their own houses;
the allowance is a pack of meal a week and four lbs
of bacon a month. The sick receive extras, flour, teas, and sugar.
Only compulsion, outside pressure, will, in this division, insure the freedmen getting full justice in cases in which they may be interested against whites. I would say of magistrate and juries what I said of those on the Eastern Shore, only less strongly. 
From some reason, either because there is milder 
feeling, or because I met a better class of people, or from the effect of the recent military demonstration in Matthews Co. there appears to be a pleasant state of things than in any other county in the sub-district.
I do not understand Gloucester Co. so well but there is less good feeling there than in Matthews. The