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0535

want or dependence for the next year

The schools are not in session - it being vacation.

The Sanitary condition of the Freedpeople in Manchester is not good:  Dr. E.H. Smith, Surgeon in the employ of the Bureau, has devoted two afternoons in each week to relieving the sick but has not been able to see all who applied at this office for medical assistance; during the fall & winter the sickness will very probable increase.  If an arrangement could be effected by which medical stores could be dispensed on this side of the River it would be of very great benefit and convenience to the indigent

The issue of rations have been necessarily considerable during the month, about the 1st inst. one of the Tobacco Factories in which a number of Freedmen were employed, stopped and the Cotton Factories working upon but "half time", threw a large number out of employment without means of subsistence, to many of these I gave tempory relief and they soon secured remunerative employment:  During the latter part of

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