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3" Contracts have usually been for the season terminating Dec 25," 1867 or for shares of the crop when harvested and put in marketable condition.

4" No sick, old or infirm freedpeople are known to be in want of anything within the authority of this office to supply in this Sub Dist.

5" No Rations have been issued in this Sub Dist within the month for which this report is rendered.

6" Marital relations among many of the freedpeople are not as sacredly observed as would be in keeping with their advancements in other respects; No particular notice is known to be taken of the subject by the Civil authorities.

7" No Schools for the benefit of freed people are known to be in operation in this Sub. Dis't

8" Disposition of the white people towards the blacks; With few honorable exceptions the general disposition of the White people towards the negroes is overbearing tyrannical and oppressive; and in some cases personal cruelty is practised.

9" Complaints and outrages are more frequent than during the early part of the year.

10" State Laws; with few exceptions - although they apply equally in most cases - so far as the black man is concerned unless the execution of the laws chanced to be under the immediate observation of a representative of the U.S. Government whose duty it might be to report such a refraction except in cases where no white mans interest is involved the State Laws might as well not exist for they only remain upon the Statutes book a "dead letter." Remarks. Little more is deemed necessary to report than was embraced in the last preceeding report from this office: Many of the freed people are now out of employment from necessity, from the fact that there are but very few planters who have determined upon cultivating crops for the next year; consequently very little labor is to be obtained. Great difficulty is

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is experienced in the adjustment and settlement of cases between employers and their laborers in consequence of the general failure of the crops.

I am Sir
Very Respectfully
Your Ob't Servant
Geo.[?] W. Corliss
Bvt. Major V.R.C.
Sub Ass't Com'r

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