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would be advisable to offer, say, one week's rations to each member of a family which should leave the peninsula.  I admit the danger of frauds, but believe that, with care, great good would be compassed by this course - It has worked well in Yorktown; it would remove a serious difficulty in the way of emigration of the above mentioned deserving but destitute class, furnish a needed incentive to as well as necessary condition of emigration, and, probably, decide many now hesitating whether to leave or not, to make the former choice.

It should be considered that, for a month, owing to the weather and condition of roads it has been impossible for freedmen to move; they have been consuming and exhausting their small means, while all profitable employment has been suspended.  Now that the settlements about Yorktown are in a most satisfactory condition I think it would be well to