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work in the truck fields in the vicinity of Norfolk and Portsmouth. All classes of persons in the County are feeling the beneficial effects of the present activity in the trucking business, money being more abundant and labor more in demand. 

The Schools and various Charitable Temperance and financial Societies and institutions in which the Freedmen are interested, are all prospering as heretofore reported. The Schools of the Prot Epis Fdmen Com in this City have closed for the Season The Schools of the Penna Branch of this Society at Deep Creek and vicinity as well as those supported by other Societies in this Division, will continue in session until the close of the coming Month.

In view of the coming Election under the Reconstruction Acts, the possible discharge of colored Employees and the almost certain attempted intimidation of Voters, the discontinuance of the Bureau, previous to such an Election, would prove an almost irreparable calamity to the Freedmen, at no time in its history has the Existence of the Bureau been so vital to their interests as now

I am General
Very Respy Your Obt Servant
J H Remington 
Bvt Maj Sub Ast Com 

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---------- Reopened for Editing 2024-03-24 19:07:42 corrected page number to "45" from "1/5" (see previous page of this doc which is "44"