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It is earnestly recommended that the system of loans be inaugurated, without it much land will be unemployed & a vast amount of labor lie idle.  

General Miller says
[" The Educational work occupies much of the attention of the Bureau, and the results are of the most satisfactory character.  A corresponding interest on the part of the Colored people & their friends is manifest, and the funds set apart for the work are being judiciously expended in rents, repairs, and erection of suitable buildings for school purposes.  This fund, now much reduced, should be increased, for much still remains to be done to  the request benefits.  Nothing will be so permanent a tribute to the forethought of the Government, and a more appropriate monument to the memory of the Bureau, than