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Freedmen elsewhere, and by forcing them to leave Hampton, and the vicinity of Fortress Monroe for other fields, that this heavy demand upon the Government for rations can be availed.

All available means are apparently used by the officers who have charge of these people, to get them to scatter throughout the state and adjacent country, to points where labor is in demand and their services would be desirable, and the pay commensurate and fair: but without any [[skills]] at all proportional to the interests at stake.

Florida Colonization Scheme.

Owing principally to the efforts of Calvin Pepper Esq of Norfolk, a scheme for colonizing more or less of these Freedmen in Florida under private enterprise (and which had some points of merit in it) has failed. They (the negroes) seem to be convinced that at some time not far distant, they will either by purchase or simple acceptance be put in possession of sufficient houses and lands on the Peninsula to enable them to live comfortably and happily the remainder of their lives. Imbued with this idea they are indifferent the (masses of them at least) to all efforts for their welfare.

- Employment of Police Superintendent -

The sanitary and hygienic condition of these people and Hampton and Habtown is such that General Armstrong considers it necessary that an officer

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Unclear: any [[skills]] at