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object of charity comes in. The condition of the Freedmen in the county at large is not so satisfactory as I hoped. The high prices offered for wood chopping through the fall and winter made laborers indisposed to accept such wages as farmers could afford to give and with no forethought many have put up cabins in the woods on verbal permission to live there for two years free of rent and have expended labor enough to cultivate a small farm on a patch of ground in the woods where they cannot raise this year food for one hog, and this when farmers were willing and anxious to make written contracts for them to cultivate cleared land on shares. Now wood chopping has failed them and in many cases they cannot get pay for work already performed, there is much pinching and I regret to say theft is very prevalent, with the certainty that it will assume formidable proportions as crops in the fields ripen. When lands have been rented for money there is hardly an instance, when the first quarters rent due April 1st is paid but there is a commendable degree of forbearance on the part of most lessors. I respectfully report as the condition of agricultural affairs in my Sub Dist ascertained by very personal observation that every effort is being made to raise a large crop and to put fences &c in repair and should the season prove farmable farmers will be in a condition to hire help freely next season. I also respectfully report that the feeling of bitterness and almost defiance is prevalent among a class of citizens at date of my last report appears subsiding. So far as this is personal I attribute much of the change to the most courteous treatment of your official communications as presented by myself by the County Court, both as a body and as individuals and seeing these persons of less consideration have ceased threats (never made directly) and I think time will bring its fruit of good understanding, if not good feeling, if the old political leaders do not seek to use the prejudice which undoubtedly exists, as a means of attaining popularity. The expectation that the Bureau would be broken up immediately having been disappointed citizens are disposed to act fairly and I feel certain that if the Freedmen can have protection through this year then future is in their own hands. 

Respectfully submitted
Yr obt servt 
Tho P Jackson
Asst Supt 

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