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# There is another loss of money by the negroes as follows - 

In slavery times they placed their small earnings by overwork, in the ordinary savings Banks of the Southern Cities. This money was frequently laid up that they might purchase their freedom. 

Those who were free were also trying to save and provide for future wants. A very large amount of such money altogether was in the hands of white men when the rebellion commenced. Enquiry for this money since its close is in vain. In no case, so far as I know has it been kept for them. Single bank books have been shown me with two - three or five hundred dollars credited by the bank to the individual & who asked me anxiously "How can I get it." In Savannah there is probably 15 or $20.000. of such deposits - In Virginia I know of five banks which had funds belonging to the negroes.

It is doubtless a low estimate to say that in all the Southern country there was one hundred thousand dollars thus deposited. This hard earned money is now greatly needed and it may be a question whether it could not be recovered?