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Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen &c.
Hd. Qrs. Asst. Commissioner, N.C.
Raleigh, N.C.  July 17", 1866.

General Orders}
No. 4.}

" " " [[dittos for: General Orders No. 4.]]  The following list of Reports and Returns required from Superintendents of Districts, is published for the information and guidance for all concerned.  
Consolidated Sanitary Report, to be forwarded on the 15" and last days of every month.
Consolidated Report of Rations, to be forwarded on the 8", 18" and 28", of every month.
Consolidated Report of Arrests, to be forwarded on the 13" and 28" of every month.
Consolidated Report of Outrages of Whites on Blacks and Blacks on Whites, to be forwarded on the 13" and 28", of each month.
Report of Operations, to be forwarded on the 28", of each month.
Monthly Return, to be forwarded on the 28", of each month.
These reports will be mailed to these Hd. Qrs. on the days above specified.
Superintendents of Districts will have reports in from subordinate officers early enough to be able to forward their own as above required.

By Command of Bvt. Maj. Genl. Robinson, Asst. Commissioner
[[signature]] Clinton A Cilley [[/signature]]
Bvt. Col. and Asst. Adjt. Genl.

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Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen &c.
Hd. Qrs. Asst. Commissioner, N.C.
Raleigh, N.C.  July 24", 1866.

Circular}
No. 8.}

In order to provide homes and employment for such families of freed-persons, now living in or near camps under the control of this Bureau, as are likely to become dependent upon the Government during the ensuing Winter - the following course will be pursued.

Superintendents of Districts, immediately on receipt of this Circular, will, both personally and by their Assistants, make a thorough inspection of every house occupied by freedmen in or near their Camps, ascertain the resources of each family, and endeavor to satisfy themselves as to the ability of each family to maintain itself next Winter.  A register will be made of all families which in the opinion of the Inspecting Officer are likely to become a charge upon the Government, and forwarded to these Head Quarters.

Every means will also be taken to notify planters in Counties adjoining the Camps that such a number of laborers, as shown by the Registers, can be procured at fair prices, naming the Camps where they can be found, and that any laborer hired at the Camps will be transported, without expense to the employer, to the railroad station or steamboat landing nearest his plantation.  Care will be taken to have contracts made in duplicate for each laborer or sett of laborers before they leave the Camps, one copy of each contract to be filed with the officer of the Bureau nearest the employer's farm.

Whenever, under the provisions of this Circular, work is offered any freed-person or family of freed-persons likely to become dependent upon the United States authorities, by suitable and responsible farms and at fair prices, the freed-persons to whom work is offered will be induced, if possible, to accept

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