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cabins of hewn logs with dirt floors and board windows.  By the latter the inmates are effectually deprived of light especially during the cold season. Humanity demands that they should be exchanged for glass.  There are now cared for at this institution Twenty two (22) paupers.

Of these Seventeen (17) are white, these being seven (7) men, seven (7) women, and three (3) children.

Five (5) three (3) men and two (2) women are colored.

Some of the whites complain of an insufficiency of food, clothing &c.  The colored people state that they have enough and are well and kindly cared for.  All are treated alike, and are perhaps as well off as existing public sentiment in the South at this time will warrant.

The Institution is not however what it should be either as to buildings, food, clothing, or medical attendance.  Fresh meat is seldom had and those who are broken with age and infirmity