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It appears from the findings of this board that none of the charges are fully sustained and only two partially sustained by the evidence, Maj Suley therefore seems to have been correct in stating "that a great deal of what was said against the accused resulted from prejudices" Still as there seemed to be some foundation for the complaints I directed that Mr Fitz be relieved and an officer appointed to fill his place.

The rents for house lots and gardens, (called in the reports of the Comrs "Fitz Taxes") uncollected in accordance with orders issued by the Superintendent of the Eastern District July 15 1865. The colony was outside the limits of New Berne & therefore was under no municipal government. To keep the village in a cleanly condition to guard the people against disturbance and issue, to provide a hospital for the indigent sick, to fit up buildings for schools and churches, were the duties incumbent on this Bureau. As many of the people won earning good wages in New Berne it was thought but just that they should help at least in paying the expenses incurred for their own benefit. The people paid them rents cheerfully, and now proud of the fact that they formed a free and an almost self-supporting community. The tax on trades was made to correspond with sending taxes in the city of New Berne, but is was not intended that [[strikethrough]] they [[/strikethrough]] any should be subjected to burdens which they could not early bear.

The disposition made of the finds thus obtained has been to defray the expenses of the settlement. No part of this fund has been expended "for the support of"