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Schools  upon a more extensive scale than before.

Those of the Freedpeople who are being subsisted by the Bureau are incapable of providing for their wants by reason of old-age, infirmity or infancy and as some of them have friends who can provide for their wants after they realize from the crops it has become necessary to temporarily increase the numbers to prevent actual suffering among them.

The Civil authorities evince no disposition to deprive the Freedmen of the rights granted them, but it must be admitted that the Magistrates especially dislike trying cases in which colored persons are parties and the undersigned is still strongly of the opinion that if they would give expression to their honest sentiments upon this subject it would be so far as the