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Office Supt East Capl Barracks
Washington D.C. July 18' 1867

Maj Vandenburgh
Local Supt D.C.

Major:

I have in compliance with your request, the honor to submit the following report.
 
The occupants of these barracks were gathered up from among the poorer Class of Freedmen of this District, and rooms furnished to those families who were entirely unable to pay the rents demanded of them by private parties.

At the time of opening the barracks (March 1st. 1866) we were issuing in this part of the District the hundred (1.000) rations per day, after a little encouragement, & effort upon the part of Bureau Employees to obtain places for this class where they could earn something, rations were entirely withheld and a diet Kitchen established for the sick accommodating the whole District of Columbia, an on an average not more than 100-rations per day have since been issued, and the majority of the people have become self supporting. 

We have at this place five barracks occupied by Freedmen, said barracks containing 116 rooms occupied by 103 families, Males 173 - Females 225, total 398 - an average of about 3 86/100 to the family. 

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Transcription Notes:
Edited: East Capitol Barracks, not Cape Barracks It is a bit difficult to decipher the punctuation used.