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1048
Third Division, comprising the Counties of Shenandoah and Rockingham.

1st.  Except at Harrisburg and Woodstock, the colored people are well distributed in this division, and constant employment is obtained without difficulty the greater part of the year.  The people however are very poor, and appear less ambitious than elsewhere.  Seldom obtaining cash for labor, they depend on employers to furnish the necessaries of life, for their families, forgetting that when a settlement comes, they will have to pay the highest store prices for what they had.  Except also at the first mentioned place, they appear to have but little interest in education.  They would attend schools if furnished them without the expense of Rooms, Teachers or Fuel, but no great importance seems to be attached to gaining knowledge through the slow progress of books.  The advancement of those who live remote from large towns or settlements, and in the mountains, is extremely slow.  Few contracts for the coming year have been made.

2d.  Reports from the officer in charge indicate

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