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there is upwards of a thousand Freedmen in the county of Pittsylvania who have not been paid for their services for the year 1866  And I firmly believe they never will be unless the "Freedmens Court" is again opened. Men take forcible from the Freedmen any thing they may have and it seems nothing can be done

I have in some instances where Freedmen have complained to me of bad treatment and where I believed the case might be settled amicably, written a simple request asking the parties against whom the complaint was made to call and see me, that the matter might be adjusted.  In most instances these requests have been treated with contempt.  Some men seize the corn grown in the "Patch" given the freedmen for his own benefit according to the contract.  Others again, finding the freedmen without sufficient clothing decline to pay them money but sell them old cloths in lieu thereof owing to the frauds practiced upon these poor ignorant people, many of them are worse off than they were in the winter of 1865,

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