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of the county consisting principally of the Arlington property on which is the "Freedmen's Village." The latter and one or two "Gov't Farms" near it has been heretofore under the care of the Chief Quartermaster Dept. of Washington. - Capt. T.M. Brown, A.Q.M. - formerly   R.Q.M. of 2d Mass.Cav. having special charge of the work. On each of the farms there is a small colony of freedmen, each has been under a white superintendent, a practical farmer employed by Capt. Brown, under special authority of the War Dept. The farms have been stocked and the expenditures for improvements made by the Qr. Ms. Dept. for the benefit of which the crops produced have been disposed of. Since the first year these farms have not only supported themselves but gone far towards the support of the village at Arlington. At that village all the surplus colored population of the D.C. for the past three years has been collected. The men have been employed by the Qr. Ms. Depts. in Washin and Alexia, while the able bodied women have done various things to pay for their support. The old and young have been supported by the gov't. From the village officers and their wives and citizens generally have constantly taken servants and the unemployed at the village and those whose labor but in past repaid the government