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couple - The total slave population before the war was 5617 - The total registry amounts to 3428, which with licensed marriages, illegitimate children, and the floating population not reached by the State Law, must - with the losses to the Co. from the emigration of Colored People during the war - include nearly all those required to be registered by the law.

Exigent measures should be taken with a numerous class of freedpeople who congregate in towns, and live - no one knows how - or shift about through the country changing employers upon the most frivolous pretenses or often with no reason further than their own inclinations - the forfeit of the wages does not affect them in the least - though a small compensation to the employer - who is often during the pressing busy season obliged to seek other labor - with perhaps the same result; as the better class find employment by the year.

Highland County.
In this Co. the General Land's Dept. of Virginia issued an order through this office dated May 27th 1866 - directing that proceedings in certain cases "Burket & [[Guhm?]]" refugees

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Cannot figure out word before season, but the rest should be done.-- looks like "busy" ---------- Reopened for Editing 2024-02-27 21:02:49