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Only the very aged, afflicted, sick, and Orphan children have been supplied. Planters contend that the labor of able-bodied men employed in the cultivation of land is worth only about $8-per month. This sum would be wholly inadequate to maintain the smallest and most economical family. And hence the Freedmen have a preference to work on shares. Trusting to luck, or circumstances for support until they are awarded for their toil by a portion of the crop, in the field. During part of the month the Freedmen's Court was in operation, and Twenty-six cases were tried, and judgment but the decisions have not been carried out in some cases, owing to the adjournment of the Court. It would Sir, be for the benefit of the Freed people, if the cases tried could prosecuted to a settlement, by granting authority to the Asst. Supt to proceed with cases tried, but not yet finally settled.

Previous to this month no schools were in existence in this Sub-District. Efforts have been made in that direction, and two are now in operation, on Sundays only, with an average attendance of sixty in each. The