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Expenditures, and at the same time have impressed upon them the urgent necessity, of making some provision during their Employment, for the forthcoming winter, in case such an exigency should again occur. 

With respect to the demand for farm labor throughout this Sub-district, I find the farmers as a general rule unwilling to give them adequate wages. The Freedmen as a class evince an unwillingness to go into the country. They are afraid they will not get that just settlement for their labor which is extended to them in the city.

A large number of contracts have been made with the Freedmen to go into the neighboring states, where greater inducements have been made them than in remaining in the city.

During the present month the deportment of the Col'd people has been everything that possible could be desired