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profitable to the Freedmen as contracts by the year.  I do not think the Freedmen in their present state of ignorance are calculated to be very successful in the management of farms-  In many instances I have found that they have not prosecuted their farming business with the judgment or vigor that they ought to in order to be successful.  Though there are some to be found among the more intelligent classes that have done remarkably well.  I think that the majority of the Freedmen will the ensuing year prefer to work by the year or month in preference to cultivating farms on shares" and I am of the opinion that it will be better for both the Freedmen & the Farmers, at least until the Freedmen can attain a higher stand point of self reliance & intelligence  I have as yet had no application from Refugees or Freedmen for Subsistence or clothing in the county of Culpeper in Orange Co quite a large number of very old & helpless Freedpeople will doubtless need assistance before spring as yet however they manage to get along without assistance.

I have suceeded in establishing a school at Orange CH V'a a report of which is herewith enclosed. Owing to some delay

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