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with fuel and rations, and there is not one team in the colony and when the Winter sets in no wood can be obtained. 
I would recommend that the colony be immediately abolished or broken up and that the Sub-Commissioner of that District be instructed to find homes for the very old, the sick sent to Jefferson Hospital, and the soldiers wives that have collected there be sent away and they be compelled to go to their husbands for shelter and support, which they are able to gain. Lieut. Hemingway officiating in the Bureau at that place, has but little to perform except to look to the wants of the people in the Colony. Condition of affairs will be seen by extract of his report herewith inserted:
"The Colony now contains six hundred and seventy six (676) freedmen, of this number four hundred and seventy-six (476) are dependants - the remaining two hundred (200) is made up of the families of Government Employees, soldiers wives and families and those sent in by Sub-Commissioner from the surrounding counties, who are fed and sheltered for a few days until they can be sent on to other plantations to labor, a portion of the employees