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for a time the medical department will require more than ordering care: some replacement of the plantation physician should be provided for, probably one for each relief farm, with direction to supervise the Parish or District and keep on hand medical supplies, would be sufficient as all persons except the absolutely dependent would soon employ their own private physician.

I do hope that such privilege may be extended in the way of schools, asylums, churches, and the like to the freedmen and with such evident spirit of liberality and humanity, as to secure the confidence of this peculiar people and put to silence those who studiously assert that you do not intend that the negro shall be really be free. I have written you simply my own convictions at your request and if any hints I may have offered can be made of service, you are welcome to use them as you see fit. The prospect of renting and owning land, is, I find, one of the strongest inducements to the more enterprising of the negroes and by no means should that prospect be impaired. The marriage