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checking abuses to the colored people.
  
3d  A Register of Marriages, has been commenced in Frederick County, but want of blanks prevents its completion.  In Clarke County, nothing has yet been done in this matter, but will as soon as practicable.  The four paragraphs of Circular No 11, dated Bureau R.F. & A.L. Head Qrs. Asst Comr State of Virginia Richmond Va., March 19' 1866, are carried out, with the exception above referred to.
  
4th  In Frederick County the intentions of the Authorities to take care of their own indigent freedpeople, is good, and the means ample, but in Clarke County many complaints are made that the poor are not provided for, and such as are report a state of wretchedness and filth at the poorhouse which is scarcely tolerable even to them.
  
5th  The demand for labor in both Counties is greater than the supply, but the rate of wages is so low that many freedpeople with large families find it impossible to provide for the necessary wants of their households, while others, with smaller families, get along in comparative independence by their labor.
 
6th  The condition of the School established in Winchester, is not so good as could be desired.  The teacher, although a man of the best intentions, and fully capable to administer the rudiments of moral and religious training to  the young, yet

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