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inmates of the hospital for more than twelve months. They are paupers and should be supported by the local authorities of the cities or counties to which they respectively belong. The number of these paupers is not as large as would be reasonably expected when we take into consideration the change which within a few years has been wrought in their condition.

The annexed table exhibits the number and condition of the inmates of the respective hospitals, of eight hundred and thirty three (833) the whole number, three hundred and seventy nine (379) are dependents and incapable of taking care of themselves. These will have to be supported by public charity or Government aid until the State shall assume their maintenance. You will perceive that one hundred and ninety five (195) are reported as residents of the districts in which they now are, most of the others belong to some one of the remote counties, nearly all are residents of the State.

A recent order of Gen. Schofield requires the counties to assume the support of the poor without respect of color. The Asst.Commissioner directs that their settlement shall be determined by their residence in January 1861 without going into the question of the legal residence of freedmen who, before their emancipation, were incapable of acquiring