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will be cut into sheets and filed alphabetically by the owners' names.  Thus the same family generally belonging at some time to the same owners as simple clue is obtained. In the case of husband and wife, only belonging to the same, a separate record is made.

I am now anxious to know what steps should be taken in the other States - as unless the same plan can be carried out in all it will prove more or less a failure, and the expenditure already incurred useless. The Cotton States will be the most important as so many have been sold away from Virginia to these.

I was startled to day by a Newspaper item announcing the progress of the Colored Census in Washington  May I beg of thee to inform me through thy Secretary of the amount of oversight the Bureau will give to the subject in seeing that such a census is obtained in the other States and also whether the expense of the Blacks could be included in that of the regular Census Blanks  I ask that I may know how far my own efforts will be needed and that I may have the matter arranged before starting