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The court responds. That houses and lands have been provided many years ago by this county at which persons requiring support from the county are removed. One intelligent man is elected in each magisterial district of the county who is called "Overseer of the Poor". They converse at the houses provided for the poor, and elect a superintendent who resides there and attends personally himself to the wants of the poor and also employs the necessary assistants to aid him. The Overseers of the Poor annually report to the court the sum that will be required to support the poor. That sum is levied on the tax payers: it is paid by the collecting officer to the superintendent who purchases the necessary supplies of food & clothing for those under his charge. To the fourth interrogatory. "will you provide for all destitute freedmen, if not for what proportion will you make provisions". The court responds that it is not expected to make any discrimination between freedmen and white persons, each freedman as if they had been white persons would have been provided for, will be provided for. To the fifth interrogatory. The court thinks the responses made to the preceding interrogatories furnishes the information asked for