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divised  and put into practice. With this view, the Commissioner disires [[desires]] to close up the work in the Medical branch of the Bureau, and he is led to believe that the present is a favourable season for the initiation of that effort. It is not so much to save a certain number of dollars and cents per month, as it is to divest the Bureau of the care of certain sick and disabled Citizens for whom the government said fit to make temporary provision. The transfer of these persons to the care of other regularly constituted State and Municipal authorities must be made at some period of time, and it appears that no time will be more favourable than the present. Of course, in the rather crude condition of civil affairs under the process of a reconstructed political existence, and in the necessarily impoverished condition of State and County Treasuries, much assisted

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