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a sacrifice. The Freedmen, like all ignorant people, are prone to rush into legal proceedings in every little dispute, without thinking, that whether the decision is for or against them, the costs will amount to more than the claim, in most cases. My advice is, in such cases, to let the matter drop until after a change of the State government.

The crops of this section have turned out better than was expected, & will I think be enough to sustain the people next year.

A large proportion of those who were notified to leave their houses on the first of January 1869 have been retained on the places they occupied this year or have found houses elsewhere.  I think there will be little difficulty in that respect, if the election is not ordered until after Jany first.

No temperance societies have been formed so far as I can hear. 

Very respectfully
Your obt servt
E. W. Busby
Asst Comr
Bur R.F.&.A.L.

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