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nearly as possible the number) the women, men, and children, belonging to their sub-districts, can without great suffering be received back, and with what facility such as may be destitute could be rationed, and provided with quarters either by the Civil Authorities or by the Bureau.

Most of those who are at Hampton and Yorktown, who should be thus retrieved are destitute women with families, some very large, and it is important to know to what extent these dependents can without real inhumanity be removed to the counties from which they originally migrated.

Full statements are expected from each Asst Supt. sufficient to guide those in charge of these over populated counties in this Dist. in retaining or in forwarding dependents to their homes.

S C Armstrong
Supt. 9th. Dist. Va.,

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