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It is very desirable that further efforts should be made to induce the indigent of our City to take homes in the country. The efforts of your office were rendered almost nugatory by the denunciations of certain papers inimical to the idea.

Necessity will compel our authorities to enforce rigidly the laws on vagrancy; and it is to be hoped that no factious opposition will be made to the impartial enforcement of said laws and thus prevent our indigent population from taking homes in the rural districts of this or some other state of our Union, and thus ameliorate their condition and materially benifit the whole country.

Hoping that your efforts to assist the poor in our City during the present winter may prove successful.

I remain your Obt. Servt.
Hugh. Latham