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in the collection of claims for the freedmen. This month, on, account of the demonstration of this feeling, and on several occasions, it was only with great effort that I succeeded in maintaining the respect of the office, and impressed upon their unwilling minds that the Bureau closes no sooner than Jany 1st 1869. -The Freedmen seem to dread the future already, and many complain of their fear and anxiety, not on, account of any bodily injury, but for the proneness on the part of their former employers, to delay on their refusal to settle their accounts.

I find large numbers, both in Town and Country who, are suffering for want of clothing, and but for the timely arrival of relief through this office. much misery would have been experienced before the dawning of Spring.-All Clothing sent to their office for distribution has been issued yet many were not served who were really in need of it. 

The school at Staunton is in a prosperous condition & is daily increasing in numbers. Those in the country continue backward. on account of the scarcity of good material for teachers

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