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or commit for trial any violation of law brought before him and found guilty.
Every opportunity is improved to instruct the Freedmen in the necessity of Industry, economy Temperance, sobriety and especially in the duties and obligations of the marriage contract, with apparently some good results. The evils arriving from the cohabitation of the sexes and violation of the marriage contract are the greatest effecting the colored people and the most difficult to be corrected. 
I am General
Very Respectfully
Your Ob't Servant
William P. Austin
Sub. Ast. Com.