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Overseers, have for the last few years and are now supported by private charity.

If the Board was organized and had the means at their command, it is my opinion that the same [[?]] and relief would be afforded to the destitute coloured as the whites, that is provided they were recipients of special favors or protection from the Federal Government, but were in all things left subject to the laws of the State. The above I believe is an answer to questions to 1, 2, 3 & 4.

We have no incorporated town's in our County imposing taxes. The County fund has heretofore been raised by a pole tax, ranging of cause according to the amount necessary to be raised, but