Circular No. 8 from the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands
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Numerous well authenticated reports from officers and / Agents of the Bureau in different parts of the State have been re- / ceived at this office, setting forth that now the crops are nearly / ready to lay by, and the immediate demand for labor has, to some / extent ceased, planters in some instances, are driving off freed- / people employed by them and refusing to pay for their labor. / Sometimes this is done openly, but generally by purposely quarrel- / ing with the freed-people\u00e2\u0080\u0094threatening them with violence if they / remain, and then because of their leaving the plantation, claiming / that they have violated their contracts and forfeited their wages. / If this unjust and dishonest conduct is persisted in, the State will be / filled with unemployed freed-people, without means of subsistence, / who must live by theft or be supported by the Government. / Therefore persons employing freed-people are forbidden to discharge / them without payment, unless they shall first show sufficient cause, / and obtain the consent of an officer or Agent of this Bureau. / 2. Military commanders in this State will assist the officers and / Agents of the Bureau to enforce the provisions of this Circular.]. 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