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of the Asst Commissioner and the Commanding General for their serious consideration to what I believe to be an important measure to recuse to the Freedmen their rights & just dues, that is, the establishment of a laborers lien upon the crops for the payment of their wages. 

Pecuniarily the masses of the freedmen are little or no better of now than they were two years ago, owing to the insufficiency of their wages as compared with exorbitant prices that they have to pay for the necessities of life.

The educational interests of the freedmen at this locality are well guarded & advanced by the two teachers of the school who ae laboring with marked success, yet but a comparatively small number of the children [[?]] are able to get the benefit of this school.

Very Respectfully
Your obedt servt
F.M. Kimball
Lt. V.R.C. & A.S. Asst Comr.