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great results:  Extensive operations begun without capital and proper considerations, have resulted in almost absolute ruin to all interested. 
Large advances of money, food and fertilizers were obtained, and the crops obtained were not sufficient to cover the outlay, and another season opens, without means at hand to carry on the work, material & money not to be had, credit gone, leaving a prospect worse by far than that of the year previous. Meanwhile suffering is becoming plainly apparent and means are not taken by local authorities to provide for it, arrising in part by a total failure of money [[?]] or a want of interest in the welfare of those who should be provided for.
Instructions have been issued to change the contract system if possible by having contracts witnessed and approved by the Bureau, provide for payments in land, or in