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   In accordance with your instructions, I visited the Western and Central portion of North Carolina and spent several days at Raleigh in communication with General Miles.  The Bureau is admirably  conducted in this State.  General Miles is heartily engaged in the work, his whole sympathies are enlisted in it.
   The State is divided into Districts, generally  comprising three Counties, though west of the mountains the Districts are much larger, embracing five or six counties each.   There are fourteen Commissioned Officers and twenty three Citizen Agents employed.  I met a number of them, and found them suitable persons for their duties, and the Asst Commissioner assured me that all his subordinates were faithful in the discharge of their duties.
   I think, on the re-organization of the State as in South Carolina, that the Districts may be enlarged, and the number of Officers reduced without impairing the usefulness of the Bureau.  In the Western Counties the people are decidedly more loyal, and will support the new State Government, but along the line of the Raleigh and Gaston Rail-road, and in the Eastern Counties where the cotton-planting interest is large, all the former prejudice will require the protection of Government Officers.
   There are seven Actg Asst. Surgeons employed in this State, but one Hospital, that at Salisbury with one Surgeon-in-charge.