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interested against whites, is at least very doubtful, if the restraints of the Bureau are removed. Since voting for the convention a more unfavorable feeling against them has become manifest, which could not fail to be participated in
by a majority of a jury and produce results prejudicial to the ends of justice.
3d: The Register of Marriages is completed for each County, and each of the four paragraphs of Circular No 11. series of 1866 are fully carried out.
4": The County authorities manifest a disposition to provide for their own indigent poor; but the means at their disposal are so wretched, another feeling of the freedpeople is so strongly opposed to the poor house, that but very few, even when ere so destitute, can be induced to enter them.
5": At present the supply of labor is equal to the demand.  As the spring advances many more could find employment at perhaps about ten dollars ($10-) per month. on farms.  Mechanics of any kind, are not in demand in either county.
6": The condition of the schools are as good as can reasonably be expected.  The teachers are not fully competent to the work, but they are the best that can be procured at present. At Berryville, the school numbers sixty