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their relations and carouse until their earnings are gone, when they are again forced by necessity to go to labor, very often under disadvantages. There are a great many old and infirm persons in Alexandria City, and many women with families of children, that are generally willing to labor to the extent of their ability, but cannot get employment owing to their incumbrances.

No cases of injustice toward the freedmen by the civil authorities in this Sub Dist. have come to my knowledge; Cases, in which the correctness of the treatment of them, might be questioned, have occurred; but no positive injustice can be proved.

Frequent applications are made to me for assistance by many of the old and infirm freed-people, mostly for clothing and medical assistance, which I am obliged to refuse, there is I fear many that the Bureau will still have to continue to provide for, as they are almost totally unable to provide for themselves, and would consequently suffer greatly were it not for the charity that sustains them.

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