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complaints, a large sum in the aggregate will be annually lost to the freedmen.

It is a matter of congratulation to record the marked improvement in the condition of the colored people throughout the whole sub district.

With industry and economy applications for relief of food and clothing have almost ceased.

The Churches have been filled with well clad, and orderly congregations, and very many point with pleasure and pride to the little house and lot, which, tho' not all paid for they call with honest pride, their own.

It has been found impracticable to organize temperance Societies; still amongst the freedmen drunkeness is rarely to be seen, and only in cases of confirmed evilnates, in the larger towns.

The great necessity of the race, (as of heresaing )is education (and cultivation) and the unwilling to contribute much material aid to the support of schools, owing to the fact that little if any assistance has been required of them heretofore, they fully realize