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during the month to destitutes 2071, to employees 403, total 2474.  this is an increase over previous month of 40 persons and 457. rations.  Clothing has been distributed to the destitute both in the Hospitals and out as follows 159 Pants 86 shirts 117 Shoes 154 Blankets 50 Great Coats

The destitution among the Freedpeople as a class is great and requires the cooperation of the whole community to relieve it.  The demand for labor is sufficient to give employment to all, but being on the condition that the laborer shall come under the same restraint and receive the same food and quarters as Slaves, before the war.  the Freedmen object to making contracts.  The terms upon which land owners offer to rent them any are so hard upon the renter that but few rent, the result is much land uncultivated and the Freedmen work only when necessity compels them.  They are also clannish in their feelings or posessed of those feelings which develop in cultivated society as exclusiveness.  They treat all who 

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