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Keeping the buildings and works in a good state of 
repair is a duty of equal weight, and these duties will 
require the presence of the Attorney upon the property 
often enough to give him a proper idea of the manner in 
which the Manager discharges his duty, both with regard 
to cultivation and care of the negroes, It seldom happens 
that one man combines the requisite qualifications for 
both an Attorney and Manager, any more than of Pro- 
prietor and Manager, and as it is of most consequence to 
have a person in charge of the estate of an Absentee 
whose pursuits enable him to do the legal and mercantile 
business in the Capital, the Attorneyship and Manage- 
ment are most generally discharged by different persons. 
MANAGEMENT OF ESTATES. 
- The Manager proceeds to the Hospital to see how the 
sick fare, whether their medicines have had the desired 
effet, and also to receive complaints and new patients. 
When the doétor attends early, which is much to be 
desired, the Manager accompanies him in his visits to 
the sick, explains to him the charaéters and habits of the 
different cases, and receives his instru€tions, all cases and 
prescriptions being at the same time regularly noted in 
a journal kept for that purpose. It frequently happens 
that many present themselves for admission who have no 
visible ailment, and who in a Hospital of whites would be 
refused. But with negroes we must be more tender ; a 
day of rest, or a dose of salts, a€ting more upon the 
idea than the body of the negro, frequently prevents a 
serious fit of sickness. The Manager, by his attendance 
on the Doétor, soon acquires a practical experience of the 
common effeét of different remedies, and his acquaintance 
with the disposition of the negro, his prejudices and pre- 
