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justly with the Freedmen, yet there are those who would oppress them if there was no power restraining them from doing so. Every criminal case that has been brought before the Civil Courts in this County has received full and impartial justice.

In view of the approaching pestilence, the cholera, to their continent I am endeavoring to teach the colored people the importance of cleaniness, which however is a very hard matter to do. The sanitary condition of their habitation is miserable. The cholera may not reach their interior position of the State, yet at the same time these meaures can do no harm.

Several families have squatted by themselves upon poor rental land, with no possible adequate means of support till another crop is harvested, I have ordered such to "break up" and seek constant employment with wages. In such districts petty larceny, like hog stealing &c. was not infrequent.

Very Respectfully &c
F M Kimball
Lt & Asst Supt F.B.

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