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supplies. The demand for labor here is very limited, and unless stronger influences are brought to bear upon Freedpeople, to induce them to leave the place, the destitution must increase. The season for employing hands to go to the Cotton States, is nearly or quite over, and they are not inclined to go North, consequently those now here, will remain to be supplied with rations by the Bureau, or be thrown as paupers on the Commonwealth, or starve and die. I am, General, Respectfully Your obt servt. M. P. See Capt 45th Regt. U. S. A. and Supt. 10th Dist. Va.