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until other provisions are made for them,—
The freedmen have much difficulty in collecting debts due them from such whites, as are disposed to trust them unjustly, Complaints are quite common, when the whites refuse to pay small sums justly due, and also threaten the claimant with shooting if he enter his premises or asks him for his due The freedmen being without means or influence become encouraged, and relinquishes his claim, feeling that he had rather suffer for the want than to contend against so many difficulties,
Another source of wrong to the Freedmen is the manner in which they are paid by their employers, being paid in clothing rations, Farm rent &c, at exhorbitant prices, so as to bring the employee at the end of his term of service, in debt to his employer, This will leave a large No. to be cared for during the coming winter. The schools are now having a vacation of two months,

I am General
Very Respectfully
Your Obt. Svt.
Wm. P. Austin
Capt. V.R.C., A.A.Q.M. and Supt.