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do not receive it, and even when they do, the fees of their Counsel often times exhausts their claim, and they are left in a worse condition than before.

Had the Freedmans Courts again jurisdiction in such cases — their claims would be attended to at once — they be collected without expense to the Freemen — and the Whites would be restrained from this taking undue advantage of them.

There is also a great opposition to the establishment of schools and Churches for the Freedmen in this county, and were such ordered by the Bureau, it would receive no ade whatsoever from the people and in many instances would result in the prosicution  [[prosecution]] of the Freedmen.

The County has levid a Poll tax of $4.00 including all Freedmen sixteen years of age, but have not as yet made any provisions for the indigent. The Court may order provissions eventually, but at present there is a decided opposition manifested to it on the part of the Overseers of the Poor -

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