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3rd Division: Shenandoah & Rockingham Cos.

1st The condition of freedpeople in these counties does not improve in any perceptible degree, owing to the intensely bitter feelings of the whites, especially in Shenandoah County, where a decided aversion is exhibited towards Lieut. Hall, the officer in charge.

2nd Full and complete justice is not given in cases between white and colored people. In minor cases fines are never imposed, and in many cases where white men can obtain bail, colored men are committed for want of it.

3rd The Register of Marriages is complete for Shenandoah County, and nearly so for Rockingham. As elsewhere, the Civil authorities render to assistance in enforcing the law in relation to marriage, even where violations are known to exist.

4th As in Frederick & Clark Counties, out door relief is afforded to such as cannot be accommodated in the poor house, but here only to the amount of ten dollars per year for each person, which is wholly insufficient, and suffering must be endured by all who have no other dependence.

5th The supply of labor is equal to the demand, and will be during the coming months. The average rate of wages is about $8 - per month - to public works in this division, and consequently the mass of the people are unemployed during the winter months.

6h One self sustaining school has been in operation

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