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at this point that they are in ernest and will probably succeed in finding homes and work where they desire to go.
Owing to the freedmen's ignorance of reading and writing, they are unable to communicate freely with each other, or receive word from those who would employ them.
Travel is almost wholly from here outwards, which increases the difficulty —— in part, the great mass of freedmen on the lower Peninsula cannot be reached by letters, and hence are almost entirely without means of getting the information required.
The egress of freedpeople, now at its climax, at the rate of 750 per month, at the season when everyone is finding his work for the year —— will, so long as the provisions of the Cir. No. 1. C.S. from the office of the Commissioner are strictly complied with, relieve a severe and most important check.  
I earnestly beg that the beneficial and prosperous outflow of people from this overcrowded and distressed locality, be 

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