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peared from among this negroes of my sub district. The overseers of the poor have expressed a willingness to try to care for all the poor of Nansamond County after the month of June. The County of Isle of Wight having been but recently added to my sub-district. I cannot report in full the condition of affairs there, and more particularly in regards to the poor.

The wages paid by the farmers for negro labor is extremely small; probably $6 per month is about the average. Most of the farmers put in small crops and do their own work or employ help by giving a certain share of the coming crop. More of the negroes are engaged in fishing, oystering and lumbering than in agriculture. 

I have a good many reports from parents of children restrained by former owners; many of these complaints come from Gates Co NC The renowned "Dr Savage" is generally mixed up in the matter, and refuses to give parents their children unless the party holding the child is paid for former keeping

By what authority he acts as sub agent of the Bureau I am uninformed

Such negro criminals as have thus far come before the magistrates have received impartial examinations

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