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ere long, afford the freedmen reliable protection from the practical demonstration of it.

The prompt action of the Magistrates in preventing imposition upon the freedmen has in settling up their accounts &c for the year been productive of great good. In some cases parties have attempted to take advantage of certain provisions in their contracts through which they could appropriate to themselves more of the crop than they were entitled to as have sought paths by which to relieve themselves from obligations to pay the balance due the laborers by claiming that the contracts had been violated &c but as for every attempt of the kind has failed & in every case known to me in which such questions have been raised the party was compelled to do right

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