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reported for the preceding month.

I have endeavored to impress upon their minds the fact that to succeed in becoming a self-sustaining people it is important that they as a class should clearly comprehend the nature & provisions of the contracts they had entered into & then fullfill every obligation assumed - By taking power to bring their duties and responsibilities within their comprehension I have found that they have materially profited by it - A very large proportion of those cases concerning which it has been claimed that the Freedmen will disregard and violate I have found upon examining into the facts that the trouble is attributable to the case by manner in which the contracts were made and the neglect upon the part of the employer to explain the contract to the Freedmen at the time the contract was

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