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renders it very probable, that all contingencies are not provided for, hence every officer should be prompt and careful in reporting every case not met by his instructions, and industrious in collecting and transmitting facts which may in any degree add to the information upon which instructions are based-

This Circular is made suggestive for the purpose of stimulating each officer and agent to the exercise of industry and zeal in the work entrusted to him - a duty which should always be imperative. and is now especially so in view of the near approach of the Christmas week in which many of the labor contracts terminate, and idleness generally prevails.

Instant attention will therefore be given to the subject of written contracts, and their importance explained to and urge upon the employer and the employed, with the object of securing the interests of all parties-

W. Storer How
Capt. & A.Q.M.
Supt. Sixth Dist. Va

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