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Bureau Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands,
OFFICE SUB-COMMISSIONER.
Columbus Miss. July 31st 1866.

Bvt Major A.W. Preston
A.D.C. A A A Gen'l Bu R.F. & A.L.
Vicksburg Miss

Major
In compliance with circular No 4. Bu R.F. and A.L. for the State of Miss, current series, I have the honor to submit the following report of the operations of the Bureau in this district for the month of July 1866

No particular change is to be observed in the status of the Freedmen from that heretofore reported. As a class they are working well; and since the prospect of a better crop than was previously anticipated has become apparent, they seem to manifest a greater desire to remain on plantations, and fulfil their contracts.

They have no idea as a general thing of the true value of money. The present alone seems to concern them, and looking forward to the end of the year for a settlement seems very far in the future.

Cases frequently present themselves at this Office, where for some trifling wrong, often imaginary

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