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settlement would prevent trouble and expense. has almost invariably succeeded in securing the rights of the Freedmen, without reference to the courts, and prevented much of the ill feeling that would otherwise have existed between the parties.

So far as I can learn after diligent enquiry, there have been no cases of violence towards the Freedmen by the Whites, and I have found no case during the last month in which a fine could have been justly imposed.

There has been no conflict of authority between the Officials of the Bureau and the state laws. The authority of the Bureau has not been questioned, and all decision of the Freedmen Court have been unhesitatingly complied with.

All Freedmen who were too old to labor have been taken care of by their former owners. frequently at great inconvenience to themselves. as many of them have been impoverished by the war to such an extent as to be unable to procure more than the bare necessaries of life for their own use.


I have the honor to be sir
Your obt Sevt.
E.W. Busby
2'd Lt. V.R.C. and Asst Sup't
10th Va Sub District