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The Register of Marriages in the same condition as when last reported upon

The expressed intention of county authorities is to take care of their own poor and, with more or less good faith, they are fulfilling their promises.  There is a general complaint of empty treasuries and of delinquent taxpayers; the poor and suffering are left unprovided for in consequence.

The supply of labor is in excess of the demand for it. - this has been the case for many months, and, while capital is so scarce, will continue to be the case.

Labor especially along the tide waters is unsteady - freedmen leaving the cultivated fields for the new remunerative employment of oystering - and they creating much bad feeling among the land holders.