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owing to a lack of a proper education in regard to chastity and the rights and duties of marriage these rights and duties are in many instances improperly observed. This caused some suffering in some families for which the case provided no remedy.

The general feeling of the whites toward the blacks, are much improved apparently and the prospect is fair that a little better state of affairs will soon exist.

Very Respectfully
Your obt. servt.
Wm P. Austin
Capt. V.R.C. & Sub. Asst Comr.