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NARA 0539

for assistance, the soup house supplies on an average about nine hundred adults and children daily without distinction of race or color, and is doing much good, no cases of any freedpeople being refused has been known to this office. The issues of this office has been entirely restricted to fuel and clothing and the demand has been so great as to somewhat retard the other business.

No cases of injustice by the civil authorities have come to my knowledge, with an increasing intelligence among the freedpeople, and a better knowledge of their rights, the opportunity of imposing upon them is decreasing.

There are no able bodied freedpeople that are able to work for whom employment cannot be found, the wages however are somewhat reduced, and the labor interfered with by the inclemency of the weather.

Temperance among the freedpeople is still pursued by its friends both black and white, but the result is not perceptible, although the freedpeople as a class, when removed from the dens of vice so prevalent in large cities, are as temperate, if not more

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