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At a meeting of the overseers of the poor for the county of York, held at York Town on the 17th day of September A.D. 1866. The following order was adopted.

Ordered, That Lieutenant F.J. Massey, agent of the Freedmen's Bureau be, for the counties of York & James City and the city of Wmsburg, be informed that this body have had under consideration circular no: 10, issued by Genl: Howard on the 1st Inst:, communicated by him, in which it is proposed, to ease issuing rations on the 1st proximo, to the pauper negroes,  by the United States Government, and that the state authorities are expected to take care of and provide for them, beg leave to report that, the citizens of the peninsula have been made desolate by the war, and are unable to support the vast number of pauper negroes, that would be thrown upon them by executing the circular of Genl Howard. The fact is, that during the war, a large number of negroes, to wit, not less than thirty thousand, collected, not only from every portion of our own state, but also from most, if not from all of the states south of Virginia, and to make the people of the Peninsula support and maintain the pauper negroes, thus cast upon them, would be a burden too grievous to be borne by them in their present prostrate condition, and a hardship under any circumstances. We are willing to provide, and do the best we can, for those of them, that are natives of our county, and the others, we respectfully ask the authorities of United States Government, to return them to the various cities,

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