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want and suffering in this city the approaching winter.

The schools in the County districts that were in session have been well attended and prosperous The city schools have not been in operation this month but open the coming month under the charge of three very efficient teachers Miss Phelps, Miss Whittaker, and Miss Harvey.

Intemperance to no alarming extent prevails amongst the Freedmen I see but few cases of intoxication and those mostly on holy-day occasions

The number of cases reported to me complaints and for advice average from six to ten per day most of these are settled before me and add no expense to the freedmen   I find that the Division of crops is the most fertile source of dispute and next the collecting of their wages. 

As to whether justice is done in this Division to the colored people by the courts the cases tried in the month of August Ruben Jackson (col'd) V.S. Casteloni and Sprague and Nelson Rosen (col'd) V.S. Morton Roberts (col'd) and others (col'd) compel me to the belief that 

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