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provisions are issued; and I feel satisfied Capt Allen's method is right; as the Govt. is then safe. 
At the present rates of Cotton there appears to me, no reason why these Plantations should not be able to pay all their debts, to feed and clothe the negroes well and to become self sustaining institutions and be no longer a tax on the Government.

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E.S. Parker
Lt. Col & Mil. Secy.