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twenty acres of land might be laid aside, for the helpless colored people - as a colony - while a room in the building might be used as a hospital without material interference with the purposes of the institution.

The building cannot be obtained now and the wants of those in the hospital are more urgent now, than they will be a month hence, as the weather moderates their wants becomes made less pressing.

I would recommend for this place a hospital, and colony, at the same place, and under the immediate change of a surgeon. There is not much disease amongst negroes in this section of country. Those in hospital are afflicted with old chronic complaints. Those applying for admission are principally old & worn out, and are now turned out to shift for themselves or starve. Such persons can perhaps labor though to raise the necessary corn &c for their support but being past yealding a profit to their former owners they have no further use for them.

As it now is, there persons must be cared for in some way or other. The best and most economical way that sujests to my mind is to colonise them, and the sick on such a place that they can raise, a portion - at least - of their subsistence.