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entertaining, as each member of it does, a sincere sympathy with the destitutions and sufferings of the indigent colored people.

The Board earnestly request, that the Commissioner of the Freedmens Bureau and Genrl J.M. Schofield will give consideration to the painful facts herein set forth, in determining what is to be done in the premises

Very Respectfully
Your Obt Servt
(Sigd) James Hayes
President Board of Overseers
of the Poor of Fredericksburg

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