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next inquiry is - what shall be the basis and measure of compensation.
 
It is difficult, from the circumstances of the case, to fix mathematically the data of an allowance. An approximation, as in the case of payment to me of rent, is all that can be expected or required. That a large number of indigent freed people were located on my farm and the neighborhoods entirely convenient to my wood land, is beyond dispute.

Capt. Myers, for several years Provost Marshal on my farm, says that from 1863 to the spring of 1865, there was on the farm an average number of at least 400. See his affidavit, confirmed by affidavit of Mr J.S. Moody.

Gen. Butler (see his letter) says:
"In 1863, I found quite a number of freedmen having their