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Henrico County and the City of Richmond! In the City and County much suffering has existed and still exists. Very few of the freedmen in this locality have been raised to farming and most of them are factory hands and when the 100 factories are at work in an around Richmond they furnish labor near 600 freedmen. The factory hands feed from 18 to 20,000 people and when the factories are closed these people are thrown upon the cold charity of the world, and when labor is so plentiful and employment so scarce, much suffering must endure. 

The Bureau has done all it [[strikethrough]] should [[/strikethrough]] in its power to keep many from suffering. It has opened a Soup house and has fed from it on an average 8000 persons per day.- Men, Women, and children, in the month of March there was issued 240,000 Soup rations at an expense of about .3 1/3 cents per ration. The Bureau has also extended aid to