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besides those forwarded to other localities during the present month. The freedpeople are beginning to realize and accept the necessity of seeking permanent homes and remunerative employment and many have left,- and are still leaving,- this county at their own expense or that of their employers.

The business before the Freedman's Court for this county is increasing; the whites accepting its benefits quite as readily as the freed-people. In my monthly report for December 1866, the infliction of a more rigorous punishment, than is permitted by Bureau Regulations, in the higher grade of crimes, was suggested. This suggestion was made in compliance with the earnest solicitation of the magistrates and other white citizens of this county, who protested against the action of this court, in the infliction of comparitively light penalties, (three months confinement) in aggravated offences, and solicited the transfer of all such cases to the civil courts; where, it was asserted, the criminal would be properly and promptly dealt with. Subsequent to the December report