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I am willing to share my alms with these unfortunate objects of charity, but, lest the number may increase to an extent that may exhaust my purse, if not my philanthropy, I would suggest the propriety of the Bureau reimbursing one for such items as I may pay for Doctors bills and medicines in extreme cases.

No want exists, at present, among the resident Freedpeople under my charge, excepting the little that is provided for by the overseers of the poor, nor do I anticipate any demands for provisions from the Government during the coming year, unless some unforeseen misfortune should occur.

Two cases of Freedmen being shot have come under my observation during the month, the first that have occurred since I have been in Lexington.  The one took place on the 10th of last January, but I did not hear of it until I appeared before the February court.  It was that of William Late, an old Freedman, who was shot by an irascible white man of the lower order named James McKindry who is reported to have been a Union man during the war and with whom Tate had previously been on good terms. The negro's character was proved to be good and that of McKindry to be bad as far as passion [[strikethrough]] [[?]] [[/strikethrough]] is concerned. As I understand the affair it occurred in the following manner.  McKindry and his wife had been quarrelling on the same day, and soon after the quarrel, Mr. McKindry and Tate had a conversation on the subject which no doubt was not at all flattering to Mr McKindry, & which he overheard, and, in a fit of anger he then and these shot Tate

The magistrate of the examining court sent McKindry.

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