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was assumed by the Bureau until the present embarrassment ceases.- A colored ward capable of accommodating twenty five patients was added and of the one hundred patients under treatment there, ten are colored. There are fifteen others under treatment in the Hospitals at Vicksburg and Lauderdale who will be transferred to the Asylum when taken in charge by the State.  There are two other establishments in the State one in charge of and other aided by the Bureau which though not strictly hospitals may be alluded to in this connection, the colored Orphan Asylum at Lauderdale and the Orphan Asylum at Natchez in charge of the Roman Catholics.

The latter of one hundred and fifty dependants being without other means of obtaining supplies is furnished with patients temporarily and is an institution eminently worthy of the charity of the government to prevent its discontinuance which must inevitably have resulted had not the aid been furnished.