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The demand for labor exceeds the supply, but while this is a fact, there is a class of Freedmen, especially, in the town of Winchester, who will not accept of employment out of town, that is to say, will not contract to labor in the country, where they could be steadaly employed at fare prices, consequently when they cannot find work in town, are laying around idle. I am glad however to be able to say, that this class is confined to but a very small proportion of the able-bodied Freedmen, and is by far the exception, and not the general rule. 

The Courts of Justice in this Sub. Dist. are as far as I know by personal observation, and can otherwise learn, doing the fare thing, in regard to the receiving the testimony of Freedmen, in both civil, and criminal cases but cannot (as I have said in my report made in compliance with Par 6 Circular No 10) say the same in regard to the rights and privaleges of Bail. I do not think they give them (the Freedmen) the same privaleges in this respect, that would be, and are extended, to a white man under the same circumstances, nor do they in all cases give the Freedman proper chance, to notify the Agent of the Bureau of their arrest, and probable time for their examination, and trial, especially in the County of Clark.

The School in this Sub. Dist. has not been doing as

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