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are willing to pay such wages as the necessity of the times really demand for the laborer yet it indicates favorably and another year or two will I think find matters in a healthy state for all parties interested Good hands get from Ten dollars ($10.00) up to Fifteen dollars ($15.00) per month on farms. In matters of Justice I note little difference from other sections of the state Few magistrates seem to have clear ideas of impartial Justice and as a consequence the freedmen in their minor complaints have slight redress. But in the higher Courts I doubt whether this Division is behind others in dispensing Justice. In all, the poor freedmen in conflict with wealth position and respectability in the white, stands a poor show against the inevitable prejudice of Magistrates and Juries and though some of the great outrages against truth and Justice have occurred here yet there seems on the surface now little difference from other sections. The freedmen here has little to hope from any Union sentiment and must await the necessary changes in public sentiment before getting in all courts impartial Justice.

The Registry is complete in all the counties. But few names appear in the Registry of Alleghany and Bath and though it does not certainly cover all whose names should appear yet from sparseness of the population and refusal to [[illegible]]

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