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reside here and the voice and influence of these are doing much to correct those evil habits and loose morals which were the heritage of slavery and to inculcate higher notions of morality and self-control. The evil of intemperance is not nearly so great among the colored people here as it is reported to be elsewhere; at it has been but very seldom that the attention of this office has been called to a drunken colored man in any public place. The poorest and worst class of vagrants are also, not found amongst the colored races.

The Hospital connected with the Bureau of District in the absence of any State provisions for the colored poor has done, and is doing great good. It is difficult to imagine what would become of the extremely old and indigent and the wretchedly poor whom sickness overcomes  without this provisions. At the same time, it is believed that there should be some plan devised for taking care of these people when the Bureau aid is withdrawn. If the State will do nothing, it is respectfully suggested that the colored race themselves should