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4th  The County authorities care for the indigent freedpeople, as they do for the whites, but, notwithstanding, there must be some suffering, the amount of outdoor relief is so small.

5th  The demand for labor is greater than the supply but indifferent or indolent laborers are not needed.

6th  During the vacation of the Bureau Schools a self sustaining school (Day & Night) was taught in Staunton, with three lady teachers, but closed on the 28th Sept.  In the country the interest of the freedmen in schools is earnest and on the increase; and preparations are being made to erect several schoolhouses near villages, in addition to those already commenced and ere long I hope to see a self sustaining system of education, in this and all the other divisions of this Sub District.

In concluding this report, it affords me pleasure to state, that the general condition of the Freedpeople in this Sub District, is improving as rapidly as could possibly be expected, from the relations which so recently existed, between the whites and themselves, that of absolute master, and abject slave.  Of their white neighbours, so much cannot be said.  The scale of justice invariably weighs heaviest at his side, and the 

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