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for office, and have recently selected a school-board, to serve for six months, for the purpose of arranging about [[strikethrough]] the [[/strikethrough]] school-houses, the residence of the teachers, the collection of [[strikethrough]] the [[/strikethrough]] money necessary &c, &c. The people have worked industriously, have managed their ground well an [[strikethrough]] all [[/strikethrough]] with no other inducement than their own advancement and without the controls of [[strikethrough]] the [[/strikethrough]] white men or the threat of punishment.

Physicians have been allowed to practice among them and to receive pay in the same manner as among white people. Stores for the benefit of the colony have been kept by colored people. I have done nothing but regulate the prices charged. Rations have been furnished some of the Planters, who will be able to repay fully as soon as their crops have been harvested. 

The other camps are not as large or as well managed, but are conducted on the same general plan. All have had a large number of old, inferior, helpless people and orphans to support, which kept them from making as good a showing for their year's labor, as they would if they had been unincumbered. 

They are now engaged in harvesting their crops, &

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