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They are struggling hard to get a start this season, but in many instances are very destitute. 

The Whites are too poor to employ them and pay them, or even to furnish them with food, therefore the Freedmen are compelled to neglect their crops to hunt for lead, iron and bones to buy food.

If a small amount of rations can be issued to them through the month of May and a part of June, it will greatly assist them. By that time their gardens and work should support them.

The County is in a bad situation. They have neither Constables or Police, nor do they seem to have energy to make them.

I have referred to the Majistrates of the County for arrest and trial, all criminal cases of Freedmen;

At City Point the Freedmen are quiet and orderly. On or about the 17th of April a strike for higher wages occurred, but

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---------- Reopened for Editing 2024-02-27 18:50:15 ---------- Reopened for Editing 2024-02-27 19:33:56 Corrected City Prince to City Point ---------- Reopened for Editing 2024-02-28 04:48:28