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[[left margin]] Registration [[/left margin]]

Still more are needed and several applications have recently been made for aid in building School houses 

The registration in the City of Portsmouth and the County of Norfolk has been well conducted by Lieut Murphy as President of the Board of Registration, and so far as can be ascertained few, if any, of the Freedmen have failed to Register.

The whites have a majority in Portsmouth and the Blacks in the county at large.  In the City of Norfolk the blacks have a majority.  Colonel T.M. Cooley Registering Officer.

[[left margin]] Temperance [[/left margin]]

The movement towards the organization of Temperance Societies has not met with very great success on account of the all absorbing political excitement.  The blacks as a general rule, however are inclined to Sobriety.

[[left margin]] Taylor Farm [[/left margin]]

The Taylor Farm has since my last report remained in Status Quo.  Some of the Freedpeople upon the farm are anxious for arrangements to be made by the Govt' for them to purchase it, as they find it difficult to negotiate directly with Mr. Taylor.  Genl. A.A. Howe of Genl. Howards staff is shortly expected here from Washington when every effort will be made to settle this vexed question and to place it finally at rest'

[[left margin]] Wise Farm [[/left margin]]

The crops on the Wise Farm, as is the case generally in this vicinity, have suffered much from the wet weather.  The corn crop will probably be about (500) Five hundred bushels.  The oat crop was nearly a complete failure.  The overseer of the farm has been changed since last report, it being considered desireable to have