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dispense justice according to their prejudices against the colored race.

The deplorable blindness of the civil authorities to correct the morals, and prevent the lewdness and adultery which is known to exist, is very much to be regretted.  If a higher grade of morality was common among the lower order of whites, it would be an example for the colored people and the laws against immorality might be enforced with a good grace.  Until this is done I fear that the freedman cannot take his proper place as a citizen in the full sense of the word.  In the meantime every effort will be made by the officers of the Sub district to bring about a more healthy state of Society.

I regret that I cannot report a more healthy state of feeling towards education by the whites, than a total indifference, while a teacher of a colored school is the most degrading position their conceptions can imagine.  The steady and rapid advancement of the Freedpeople in education will soon however cause their white neighbours to blush, and stimulate them, it is hoped, to greater exertions in their own behalf.

The capacity of the officers of the divisions is fully equal to the duties required of them, and the records are intelligible and well kept, and with the extra duty of Military Commissioners, and Registering Officers, they