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it cannot be controverted.
3rd. I am of the opinion that the Registration of Marriage will never be complete. In the first place, the A.S.A.C. complains of the multiplicity of their duties making it impossible to complete their Rolls. In two of their Divisions this may be true, but not in the others. The great difficulty, however, is the indifference and repugnance of the negro to registering in reference to marriage both the men and women still have an aptitude for change of their marriage relations and their animal propensities are so strong tha they heed not the consequence of the change. Apart from the incompleteness of the Registration referred to the four paragraphs of Circular 11. 1866 from the office of the Asst. Commissioner are fairly carried out so far as refers to the action of the A.S.A.Commr and Agents
4th In my opinion every County in this Sub District will be able to care for all their poor after the coming harvest and should be made to do it. The exclamations of "very poor sir, very poor" in

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