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upward tendency while in Franklin there is no change or concession of advance. Yet the condition of the freedmen seems excellent  Their apparent ability in each division to care for themselves give them a small destitute to record indeed: such as are wholly helpless are well provided for.

While at Danville I received the orders for posting Registry notices and so short was the time before me for giving the required thirty days notice that I was neccessarily compelled to return as speedily as possible to my Registration Head Quarters and to give but a hurried inspection of matters in the divisions of Pittsylvania, Patrick and Henry and Franklin Counties.

As a general statement for the whole sub Dist I would say Bureau matters move very quietly indeed. Every county provides for its present destitute white and colored by means of levies which are sufficient for present purposes  Among the ignorant magistracy the colored man receives but little redress yet in the better class and in the higher courts there is no discrimination between him and the poor white. 

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