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not being paid — dissatisfied at the cutting down of rations and dissatisfied with their prospects for the future. They are disposed to take temporary work to enable them to purchase sugar &c, but they do not and apparently will not remove. Unless some provision is made to give the willing ones a sufficient ration to induce them to work out the crop I fear it will be lost — it has already suffered. The farm hands complain, and with some show of reason, that the wood & mill hands have had a great preference shown them both in amt & payment of wages. I have induced Mr Bartlett to go over the farms and keep things moving if possible—

What is to be done with the Rogers Seine? Shall I make an