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* South Carolina
[[strikethrough]][[strikethrough]] The state has 
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[[strikethrough] South Carolina appropriated last year $20,000 to buy land in the upper part of the State [[strikethrough]] which [[/strikethrough]] which has been sold to freedmen for homestead [[strikethrough]] who [[?]] to purchase [[/strikethrough]] and the law says he actually [[strikethrough]] that the until of [[/strikethrough]] this year to [[?]] for the sum [?] $400,000 upwards of 40,000 acres unsold by the state during the year to poor men of all colors.

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