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prepared to receive them. I am now delayed by the incompleteness of that institution; the work on it goes on too slowly; it would be just as cheap and far more business-like as well as humane to push it rapidly to completion. 

It should be prepared to receive from 150 to 200 inmates at once, so as receive those who by the operation of Bureau law, must be taken from restored lands. This delay exasperates the whites, renders the work every month more difficult, and seriously injures the interests of freedmen who ought now to provide against the coming year.  It will not do to delay the reconstruction of these farms a month. 

Lieut Massey is instructed to call for whatever is needed to finish the hospital at Yorktown speedily and this is written to describe the importance of his coming request.

In the foregoing I have perhaps exceeded the limits of Cir No. 1. Series of 1866; but I think what has been written bears materially upon the laboring interests of freedmen, and therefore by a liberal construction