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county, out of employment and in fact wanting more. 

Intemperance is perhaps on the increase; The negro as well as the whites love liquor in this part of the State. Petersburg is filled with dens of infamy, kept by whites & Blacks. From all these dens originate pestilence that in fact draging down the young girls and men of both colors. The city authorities pay little attention to these haunts of sin & vice. Dancing is carried on nightly and houses of ill-fame flourish unmolested. I sometimes think that the city authorities winkat these hell=holes, because most of the arrests are made outside about these places and the fines imposed by the Mayor is greatly enriching the city Execution.

Very Respectfully
Your Obdt Sevt
Henry K.W. Ayres
A.S.A. Comr &c

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