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efforts, to take the fruits of their labor or skill at market value, and thus are, in a sensible way, encouraging the march of intellect. This diminishes the attendance at school materially, but, I think, not necessarily to any great extent; Northern liberality has morally pauperized many of the freedmen, and the small degree of self help required will produce most desirable results in the end.

There is nothing to add to my previous reports upon the efficiency of Bureau officers. Lieut. Sloan a new officer, appears to be earnest and capable, though, I suspect, the hospitalities of the gentry of New Kent may have tinged his spectacles a little in his view of that class.

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