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Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen & Abandoned Lands
Office. Act. Asst. Commissioner State of Georgia
Augusta Ga. Jany. 9th 1866

General.

[[stamp]] THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE UNITED STATES [[/stamp]]

I have the honor to announce with great satisfaction that contracts are being very rapidly made throughout this state, and at good prices, ranging from ten to fifteen dollars per month.
The almost painful anxiety I have had as to the future of the free people of this state, is entirely relieved and removed.  There is now no probability whatever of any considerable suffering among them.
I can provide all the able bodied freed people, young and old, with employment, good homes, good compensation, and a promise of kind treatment.  The demand for labor and the price paid for it, are increasing every day.  I am at

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