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that the negroes will be proved to be unable to care for themselves with no wages- to pay for high rents. 
By referring to the mayors docket of the 7th inst (which you will please find enclosed) his evident design is to require so large a fund that the cuplrit will have to leave town perhaps to return to plantations where they will be whipped for leaving. or from which they have been driven, and yet the demand for labor here is greater than the supply. 
I think if the trial of colored persons is placed entirely in the hands of the Civil Authorities this Bureau should furnish them Counsel as they are unable to employ it
I trust immediate measures will be taken to take lands and buildings and sell and rent them to colored people. Numbers of these wish to buy land and build on it- to rent land and work it, but to rent houses in the city at living rates-

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