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and poverty, are unable to make out cases, or pay attorney's fees. In the division of crops, a fruitful source of difficulty, complaints have always come from the colored man's side only.
But I think that there is an increasing disposition to do justly by freedmen.
The Registry of Marriages is in the same condition as when last updated upon.
All county authorities in this sub district express the desire and intention to provide for all their own poor but are not always able to do so. Their operations are greatly embarrassed because of the non payment of taxes by freedmen; but in this respect there has been of late in some of my counties marked improvement on the part of freedmen.
The supply of labor is somewhat less than the demand for it. Money is very scarce laborers are not promptly paid are dissatisfied and unreliable in consequence. 
Business is at the present time very dull and