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cases of claims for wages from Lee's surrender to the 2nd of the year having been [[strikeout]] nearly all [[/strikeout]] adjudicated on in this Court, lessens to a degree, more or less, revengeful feelings on the part of the Whites towards freedmen, still there are many cases of low spite, not to say cruelty, practised by citizens towards this race.  Ladies of the County and males in the middle class of society showing worse feelings than those occupying high position in the neighborhood.  Again, the state of Politics in Washington has of late rather hindered the improvement in feeling between the two races which I had hoped to be able to state [[strikeout]] in this state [[/strikeout]] as gradually commencing to show itself.
   The Schools are carried on in a very efficient manner, and lately have had the assistance of a Superintendent, but it is to be regretted that branch schools are not established through the County.  In my last report I  stated that I had in contemplation the setting up of a school at a distance of sixteen miles, but I have not been able to carryout my intentions, owing to my utter inability to procure school books, altho' I  have been in communication with the District Supt of Schools for this District on the subject.  It must be borne in mind that this Sub District measures forty miles by twenty, therefore comparatively speaking, very few can possibly attend the Schools situated in this town alone.
   It is as yet too soon to form any opinion what the results of transferring Criminal cases to State Courts may be, but, in this Sub District, I apprehend

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