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the freedmen until the time for settlement came, that any serious evils have grown out of the final settlement.

The number of complaints filed during the month by Freedmen, in which complaint is made of fraud &c have not come up to my expectations.  I apprehended that a much larger proportion of troubles would occur, as this is the month in which the divisions of crops were made, where parties had worked for a share of same.  I think that the prompt action of the Bureau Officer in such cases has had a salutary effect upon the community at large, and it also convinces me that his presence here saves to the freedmen a vast deal of annoyances and imposition.  Although I believe a more favourable state of feeling is cherished toward the freedmen than there was six mo's since, I am not of the opinion that the old feeling of master towards slave has become so weakened as to secure to the latter all that he is now entitled to.