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The necessity of the most rigid economy on the part of all classes renders charity to the unfortunates less general than heretofore and as there are no funds whatever in any of the local treasuries having this class in charge a large increase of applications for admission into the Hospitals of the Bureau is anticipated.

The legal prohibition to the admission of freedmen to the Insane Asylum of the State is known yet no such admission has every occurred until recently.- Since the colored Insane have been in the charge of the Bureau this has not been the result of prejudice or custom but has been due solely to the fact that the Asylum has been filled to its utmost capacity by white patients in whose behalf the legal formalities had been adopted to procure their admission.

Upon the application of the Governor and his representatives that there were no funds in the Treasury for its support the charge of the State Asylum