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in this Division; there is sufficient labor for the demand and all who are able and willing to work can be employed at fair wages=

The Freedmen are industrious and doing well and the most of them making a pretty good living= The state of feeling between Whites and Freedmen is not good, there is a want of confidence on both sides- The Freedmen are adverse to the formation of Temperance organizations, still they are not given to intoxication, their conduct is this respect is good.

Very respectfully
Your Obed. Servant
George W. Black
A.S.A. Com'r 3d D. 1st Sub Dist V'a

Thro.
Hd. Qrs. 1st Sub Dist

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