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will pay or be properly tended until after harvest
   
The Temperance question has been kept before the freedmen and with some success the freedmen fully under stand their obligation towards their family & find they cannot support them & drink at the same time.

With the present wages the freedmen are & continue to be self supporting.
I am Sir
Very Respectfully
Your Obt Servt
E.H. Ripley
Asst Sub Asst Comr

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