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EXHIBIT "B".

#1) Drink out of the same dipper with the Negroes, and some of them are diseased, work all the week with them and be kept seperate on sundays.

#2) The vituals are always served cold, and the meat isnt fit for a Human being to eat.

#3) Vegatables turnip tops, rape, or collards, vegatables just cropped and cooked with bugs and worms in them. 

#4) Coffee served cold and very weak.

#5) Wheat bread once a day usually it is fixed very well, what little we get.

#6) Supper cold corn bread & black Molasses with a very small piece of meat.

#7) Breakfast wheat bread and black molasses & a small portion of the same meat.

#8) Dinner some kind of salid, or dry peas & corn bread with the same Meat.

#9) I look to get some good Meat while this investigation is on.

#10) There is two places where they keep the meat, they never show the second place, Ask me where it is.

#11) If they hear of any committie comeing here they stop help enough to fix up for it.

#12) They never give any kind of fruit at all, and supper & Breakfast are always the same.

#13) If any prisoner disobays the rules, He or She is Sevearly Beaten.

#14) Our stewart Mr. W. D. Brooks will curse any prisoner is he askes for a piece of wheat bread, or meat saying, theres no more for you.

#15) I have heard the overseers, curse prisoners for just any little thing, for instance, talking or smoking.

#16) We only get on pair of cheap sox every three Months.

#17) Our stewart mails only such letters as he wishes to, and destroys the rest, always reads them before Mailling them.

#18) Our sell, to my personall knowledge, wasnt scrubbed for 14 months.

#19) I have known one prisoner to go to tillery and come back drunk twice he is an A Man)

#20) The man in charge of the Women has been known to punish some of them with a stick, there is evidence that they are used for other things, Personal Lust.

#21) Mr Collie is very hard to get to see, as he always comes when we are in the field, and he does not have time to stop and talk when one of the prisoners, wants to talk to him.

#22) Some of the prisoners are afraid to say anything to Mr Collie on account of punishment here, and these will tell you that they are being treated all right.

#23) Our Doctor dont give us proper attention.

#24) The Doctor and Capt, Rhem will punish one Sick or well.

#25) When they heard about the committie comeing here, the Doctor came in the Hospital & had Baker bathed & axually powdered him, where he burnt him when he was unconscious.

#26) Once before the Doctor had Baker punished when he was sick, the Doctor had him beaten twenty lashes, they beat him so sevearly that he went out to work sick, after staying in the hospital chained down on milk three times a day, Baker has crazy spells at times and isnt fit for work at that time.

#27) Our water boy is very indecent & he is allowed to put out out food with his hands, I J. C. Walker can tell you how he is indecent.

#28) When a man brakes a rule, here and loses his grade he hasnt got any chance to get it back.

#29) I J. C. Walker lost my clothes Apr, 8th-1919 because I slipped out a letter, to Rev, J. D. Moore of Raleigh, I was promptly given to understand that ide be thrashed life Hell next No chance to live down a bad record.

#30) I dont think that I done rong by writing to Mr Moore, and I ask the committie to give me back my clothes, and order me moved to some other camp.

#31) Mr Brooks has sveral names of prisoners, that he is punishing by taking their tobacco away from them, last sunday he failed to take it, from them, But said "I have not forgotton you men on my list, I just hate to take this Rotton tobacco from you", and they give out a better grade than they had been giving out.

#32) Guard Dean Bryant struck sam Wilson with a large stick, Rev, N. C. Hughs saw the negro just after he was struck while he was bleeding.

#33) Every morning we are locked out in the yard, inthe winter we suffer from the cold.

#34) Some of us are not allowed to stop in the hospital when sick.

#35) We humbly ask that we be given fruit occasionally, and given wheat bread for breakfast & supper, and that the Management have our sox washed and placed with out other clother, each week.

We ask that we be worked separate from the Negroes, That our food be served while hot, that the State buy a decent grade of Meat & that we be given sugar for breakfast to put in our coffee, the paper stated that we are fed well, Cold corn bread, a very small piece of Meat & Black Molasses every night.

We ask that our mail be delivered every night in the place of twice a week & that the State furnish stamps, We ask to be allowed to write & seal our mail to our Superintendent or the Governor, that we be furnished coppies of the Laws enacted 1917 & 1919 and give us a Nother Stewart.