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Bureau of Refugees Freedmen and Abandoned Lands
Office Assistant Superintendent Elizabeth City County, Va. 
Fort Monroe, Va., 186

the return, of all who are able to go, to their original, counties or wherever their condition may be improved. 

The discontinuance of the ration issue,- the deprivation of the right to occupy land rent free, together with a thorough and persistent effort to induce immigration,- have lessened the number of dependents upon the governm't to an extent not discouraging; but there still are and will be a large number remaining who are wholly unprovided for, and who cannot but suffer greatly, (many, who refuse to accept such assistance as is deemed proper, deservedly.)

The demand for transportation is steadily increasing and is expected to grow still greater. 

During the current year transportain has been furnished, from this office to One thousand Six hundred and Ninteen (,1619,) freed-people; while it is presumed that no less than five hundred, (500,) have immigrated, without assistance

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