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There will be numbers of infirm and helpless freedmen, besides some among those who were called "free negroes", for whose support some local provisions must be made; and I again respectfully suggest that the local authorities, as [?] of new [?], may be made to take care of them as they best can, for the inhabitants will then have a personal interest in the matter, and permit the rise of vacant  cabins which they would now rather burn than have them occupied under the auspices of the "Freedmen's Bureau"

The freedmen are rapidly becoming familiar with and accustomed to these new relations to the Whites, and give encouraging evidence that with facilities for education, and unobstructed entrance into fields of labor and business they will soon enough be regarded as an [incubus?] where the State in as subjects for the tutelage and guardianship of everybody - potentially those whom they already surpass in patriotism.

I am Colonel
Very Respectfully
W. Stover How, Capt & AQM
Supt Sixth Dist.