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Alms House purposes, and are willing to receive all proper objects of Charity, but freedmen will suffer all but death from starvation rather than go into the Alms House.

Labor
Under the conditions set forth in statement of general condition of freedmen, laborers can readily procure work, but the number in this county are largely in excess of capital available for profitable employment.

Schools
The school at Farmville is the only day school taught in Prince Edward Co., and closed a successful session June 30 1868, average attendance (136) one hundred and thirty six scholars, and progress as shown at the examination is highly creditable to teachers and scholars. A strong effort is being made to organize Sabbath Schools in the county districts, but teachers are few - buildings not easily procured and the people too poor to purchase necessary books. The citizens tolerate, but will not aid in this all important work of education, either secular or religious.

Political
Political differences between white and colored - though less angrily exhibited in Prince Edward County than in some other counties - are none the less decided, and little judgement has been evinced in the selection, by freedmen, of their representative men.

Roads
Freedmen have not done much road duty during 1868, and the roads and bridges are in bad condition.

Crops
Crops generally backward - wheat only a moderate yield from

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