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a considerable difference in the amount of wishful duty performed by many officers. The difficulty in question warned not be remedied by an increase in the regular pay, as whatever amount might allowed, it might still be obtained without the travel necessary to insure a proper discharge of duty, whereas the allowance should only be for the actual increase of expenses occasioned by that travel. 

The general Bureau duties at Fort Monroe and Yorktown have been well performed and the offices are in good condition. The schools in the neighborhood of Far Monroe are flourishing, and in particular the new Naval school promises to be very successful.

The condition of Elizabeth City and York Counties with special reference to the once swarming excess of the freed population., the decrease of pauperism and crime, and the spread of civilization and education. Presents a most gratifying contrast to the facts exhibited in my first inspection report of the Peninsula in February 1866. 

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