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Number of furnished homes at good wages at Intelligence office, at Alexandria, 104
Number of Applicants for laborers and Servants. 187
The schools are in a prosperous condition. The rudiments with Arithmetic, Geography, Grammar, and Needle work are taught with success. The Teachers are competent, and devoted to their work, supported by Northern Societies, I can only add, I am highly pleased and gratified with this department, and am satisfied, the instruction given, will be of great benefit to the next generation, if not before. 
[[underlined]] Loudoun County. [[/underlined]]
Brt. Capt. S. B. Smith, Asst. Supt. of the Bureau for Loudoun Co., reports the department as self sustaining among Refugees and Freedmen, with the exception of three of four of the latter, who are very old. 
There are no Colonies, Camps, Depots, Hospitals, or Government Farms in the County, occupied by Freedmen.
Freedmen are quite, and much encouraged by the reconstruction Bill. A number of cases have been tried by Civil Courts, in which Freedmen were interested, and justice was done them. 
[[underlined]] Fauquier and Prince William Counties. [[/underlined]]
2nd Lieut. W. S. Chase Asst. Supt. for these two Counties, Reports, that there are no Freedmen, who are able to work, for whom labor cannot be found. The feeling toward Freedmen, is good among the better class of Whites. Complains is made against a class of young men, who desire to keep Freedmen down, and make trouble. The Military Reconstruction Bill has awakened a desire to cultivate the friendly feelings of Colored People, and also the establishment of schools, to educate them, in order to evade the influence of those sus-
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