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women from 3 to 4 dollars per month. Many take land to work for a share of the crop. The latter prepaired by the Freedmen, but recently the landowners fearing that land was to be taxed according to its value have required the Freedmen to guarantee the prepayment of the taxes assessed the coming year out of their share of the crop.
Until such legislation can be had as will bring society into a condition when in self defense it will be found to organize industry in such a manner that this laboring class may earn its own bread, want poverty and destitution will abound and but little improvement can be expected.
Respectfully Submitted
Wm. P. Austin
Sub. Asst. Comr.

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