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see any necessity of making a change. It would however be advisable to establish an Asylum or Home for the most helpless of these people. The very aged and permanently disabled persons should have some place of Refuge where they could escape from the oversight or other neglect of merciless masters to be safe from the dangers of cruelty and starvation. This, with an extension of Chief C. Merrick's admirable Asylum for small orphans and abandoned infants. I am inclined to think would be all that is necessary. Aside from these institutions I think the people had better depend on themselves or on the conditions set forth in Circular No. 9. for the medical care of themselves.
|||  The census of 1860 shows about 63.000 negroes in Florida. Since that time this number has been materially increased by purchase from other States - by the natural increase of birth and by the importation from other States, by the owners of slaves bringing them here to escape the movements of the United States' Armies. I think it a safe estimate now to place the number of negroes in the State at 90.000 or 100.000 people. |||

Chaplain H.H. Moore, Supt of Education having failed to send in his report in time to be included in my own, I will forward it as soon as it is received.

In conversation with Planters, I have gathered a few facts concerning the crop they will raise this