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to get this class back to there old homes, but there will have to be provisions made before winter either here or elsewhere to clothe feed and Shelter the extreme old and those who are helpless. I have insisted upon the county authorities taking care of the poor as long as they collect a pauper tax from the freedpeople, and in some counties the freed paupers fare realy better than the whites, but the Counties are all badly in debt and it will be for the good of both classes if the extreme cases are cared for at some asylum. If a poor farm on the new England system could be adopted at central points and afterwards in each county under such a system that the work of the vagrant could be for the benefit of the indigent. I have no [[doubt?]] but this class could be maintained at a small cost to the Government and ultimately the farm and improvements could be sold to the counties to be used for the same purpose.
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Schools
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The freed school at this place is in a flourishing condition number of pupils over one hundred, and improving in deportment and knowledge, much credit is due the teachers who have devoted themselves entirely to the advancement of the colored race. No new Schools opened. on quite a number of the better class of plantations they teach the freed people on the Sabbath and evenings and they are reported as progressing finely
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