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this county - poor at best - is fast becoming depleted of the little fertility it possessed - being overworked - and yearly the crops are lessening. These facts the Freedmen are beginning to realize and almost daily one or more families remove to the upper river counties where greater advantages are derived from their labor. 

Many have left for Boston and other cities north during the past month. The subject of removing is being actively agitated among them and I have no doubt good results will follow. The storekeepers of Yorktown are becoming alarmed at the rapid decrease of trade consequent to the many removals made last spring and fear greatly, that unless the present policy of the Bureau is changed that their "occupation is gone"

Bureau Court.

Is still in active operation and its action appears to give general satisfaction, even to such an extent that the "clique" who have been constantly working against the Bureau in this county are much troubled that greater cause for complaint is not given

Horses.

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