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About three of them are employed in the field and garden - when they please; and the remainder do scarcely any thing. Mr Wales does not think himself authorized to turn them out. He says their children as much need to be kept in the asylum as any full orphans. I recommend that Maj. Knox be directed to have these women disposed of: the necessary number for the garden and the service of the house to be selected, and made to work, if they remain; and the remainder to be turned over to some persons who will pay them wages. If they insist on taking their children away with them, they must have them, I suppose; but this ought not to hinder their being sent away. If any are unable to work they should be transferred to Dr Wrights hospital of incapables.

The asylum has but one well, and is distant from the spring. The officer acting as Quartermaster, Capt. Simmons, has been directed