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up a ward for the sick and homeless by the outlay of a few sash and door fastenings and a keg of nails involving but little expense and giving us a good hospital for both counties. Decided that the present system of hiring out the colored people on the Eastern Shore was not calculated to permanently benefit the race and recommended the locating of families on small tracts of those lands most likely to be confiscated as a remedy against virtual enslavement of the [[strikethrough]]Freedpeo[[/strikethrough]] Freedmen when the military power was withdrawn. The Blacks must be made more independent of the whites through this "Hiring System" promises; but more on that subject when I see you. I believe the last thing we can do with that mill is to sell it and get back the money it cost as nearly as possible and have so endorsed the paper of Dr. Sidney. 

I found horses used by citizens without rent not on our papers, these I ordered returned immediately to the T.F. Assylum subject to my orders. I ordered a building

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