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144 transmit "Report of Schools" for the month of November 1866. Very respectfully Your obdt Servt Henry E Rainals Capt VRC, Sub Com. DM. Bureau R F. and A.L. Office Sub-Com. DM. Meridian, Miss, Dec. 11' 1866. Oppelt Miss H. C. DeKalb, Kemper, Miss. Enclosed please find 6 Blanks for "Teachers School Reports". As soon as I get the blanks I shall send you some for making out your vouchers. You had made a few mistakes, thus for instance not stating how many of the pupils were "male" and how many "female", and not filling out "How many grades. Please be careful next time, as it gives me considerable trouble in consolidating the different reports, when they are not correct. I shall try what I can do in regard to the books for Sabbath School. I have sent to Vicksburg to inquire whether there are any to be had. Very respectf. yr obt Servt Henry E Rainals Capt & Sub Com - DM. Office Sub-Com. Dist Meridian Meridian, Miss. Dec 17. 1866. Scully, Captain J W. Depot Quartermaster, USA Vicksburg, Miss. Captain. I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt on the 13" inst (thro' Capt Sunderland of the following amounts in payment of vouchers, viz: Transportation $4 Postage 13.25 Hire of labor, QMD 16 Stablehire 5 Total $38.25¢ I am, Captain. very respectfully, Your obdt Serv't Henry E Rainals Capt VRC, Sub. Com. F.B. Bureau R. F and A L. Office Sub-Com. Dist Meridian Meridian, Miss, December 31" 1866. Preston Bvt Major A. W. A.A.A. Gen. Bu R. F and A.L. Vicksburg, Miss. Major, I have the honor to submit herewith my Report for the month of December 1866 A larger number of Complaints by Freedmen than usual have during the present month been made at this office, as to violation of contracts, ill-treatment, illegal keeping of minors by former masters without consent of parents, and the like. In all instances these cases have been refered to the local magistrates or lawyers, as the case might be, but from the fact that the freedmen as a general thing are poor and cannot afford to prosecute their claims by law, especially for amts less than $30 - lawyers not being willing to charge less than $25 ea - most of such cases involving moneyed claims have remained uncollected and must result in the actual loss of what the freedmen had due them in wages or part of the crop.
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