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2nd In the City of Norfolk the Administration of Justice has been impartial and great credit is due to the Major J R Ludlow for his evident zeal in explaining to the Freedmen their rights and in protecting them in the Enjoyment of the same. Complaints of injustice are most frequent from the County at large.  Where from the ignorance and in many instances the prejudice of Magistrates the Freedpeople are exposed to petty acts of tyranny which only the utmost vigilance on the part of the Bureau can prevent.  Applications from Freedpeople for legal advice in cases of Ejection, Wages &c, are very frequent.

3rd The Register of Marriages is as complete as it is practicable to make it and the requirements of the few paragraphs of Circular No 11 faithfully carried out.

4" Since the last Quarterly report the issue of Rations except to Employees has been entirely dispensed with, and the Freedmens Hospital at Norfolk broken up.  The destitute Freedpeople and Hospital patients have been turned over by the Civil Authorities.  In the Cities of Norfolk and Portsmouth, however, there is still considerable destitution which the Civil Authorities have failed to releive, and aid either by the issue of Rations or the opening of a Soup House, will undoubtedly become neccessary at an early date.