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Except in cases of sickness or extreme old age, but very little suffering exists. The county authorities have shown every disposition to care for both cases, and also for such others as had a legitimate claim for public aid.

Very few contracts for labor have been made at this office, as the freedmen have grown distrustful of the intention of employees to honestly abide by and faithfully perform their duty in such cases. 

The experience of the two past years has convinced them that at the expiration of long contracts they almost invariably find themselves in debt to the employer, or if a balance be due them, they have to resort to litigation to obtain it, and the expense of legal proceedings would generally more than counterbalance the sums due

2d The hope of impartial justice to colored people in cases where they are interested against whites is remote. She who was supposed to be blind has so far recovered the use of one eye, as to see and punish the offences of the freedmen, which are always brought within the range of her vision, while with the imperfect

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