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The question The plantation is large, well proportioned and considered about the best for all cooks in the county I lend you enclosed herewith the lease of a plantation just on the edge of the city. It will serve in part for our needs and will undoubtedly be self supportive. The lease money, as you see, can be paid with about a dozen bales of cotton. The place produces from one hundred to one hundred and twenty five bales, besides stocking itself. In case we cannot secure the drum horkd property, in regard to which which I lent you a special report, it will be necessary to lease one or two others in this vicinity, and lower[i think] at  central points in neighboring counties. I have already had offers made of very eligible places, in Miller [i think] and other counties.
The number of Freedmen at present on our hands will be seen from the tri-monthly Report herewith enclosed. If all who ought to be under our [[?]] control were gathered in. This number would be