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Mary claims for bounty  are submitted to Capt. Durkee.

   The condition of the freedpeople in Fla. is comparatively good.  In the largest part of the State, they are well treated, and complaints of outrages are fewer than in most other States.
   There has been a considerable emigration from the  more northern States, many have located on small parcels of ground under the homestead Act, and hopes are entertained that with a little aid the present year, they will soon be well established and be able to provide for themselves.  In colony taken to New Smyrna by Genl Ralph Ely proved an entire failure, owing to the incompetency of the project.  The people which he brought from South Carolina suffered considerably until relieved by the Bureau.  They have all abandoned the tracts of land settled by Genl Ely, and have distributed themselves over State.  Many have located homesteads for themselves, and other have found employment on plantations.  They have proved themselves more capable in taking care of themselves than Genl Ely was to manage their affairs for them.
   Col. Sprague had issued a circular providing for a limited  supply of rations to needy freedmen who had ten acres of ground fenced and under tillage, but the season had so far advanced, that probably the aid actually required will be small.  There is but little real poverty among the freed-people of this State.  The only necessity for rations is to start those wo have settled for the first year on lands under the homestead act, or have purchased small tracts for themselves.
   For the last three or four months the location of homesteads had averaged about one hundred