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They cheat and defraud them in all their dealings with them, and always do it in such a manner that the colored party. cannot get redress by law as they are sure to take advantage of their ignorance, Such of the colored people as work by the year gets from eight to ten dollars per month with rations, consisting of 3 1/2 lbs bacon & 1 1/4 peck of meal per week. The wages is drawn in kind from time to time to support the family, and when the year is up the laborer generaly comes in debt to the employer. Some rents pieces of land by paying one fourth of the crop to the owner of the land, and manage in that way to make a living, others work by the day, and generaly gets Fifty cents per day except in the busy season when they get more according to the demand, The colored people in this division are as a general thing sober, and there is not to my knowledge a temperance organization in either of the Counties, Such is the State of Bureau affairs in this Division, which I respectfully submit.

I am General,
Very Respectfully
Your obt Servt. 
Thomas Leahey
Asst. Sub Asst. Comr. B. R.F &. A.L.

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