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give present relief to the Freedmen and Refugees but should do all in their power to prepare and educate the public mind in the several states lately in rebellion, to assume and administer the humane and necessary duties now performed by the agents of the Bureau after it shall have ceased to exist. 

It is to be hoped subsequent reports will furnish evidence of the success of the efforts now being inaugurated.

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The soil productions of the State, bear an important relation to the welfare of not only the freedpeople, but to all those unfortunate indigents, who, in the absence of the resources of a provident foresight and accumulation, are dependent on current production for a subsistence; and who, when such production fails to meet their immediate