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without avail. By recent orders I am compelled to remove all "Freedmen" who are now residing and have rented land on the several Farms in York Co. upon notification by the owners that they will not lease their lands for the coming year, but as to what point they are to be removed to I have not been informed. 

They will be unable to lease land in this County as I am satisfied there is a Combination of land owners in York Co. Who are determined to not lease any more land to the "Freedmen", hoping by this means to rid themselves of their presence, in fact most of the Freedmen on the several farms have already been notified that they must leave at the end of the year.) Many of them have resided since their birth upon the land they are now cultivating and the tenacity with which the "Negro" clings to old associations is well known. There cannot exist the slightest doubt that it would be greatly to the benefit of the

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