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Office Sub Commissioner Bureau Freedmen &c.
County of Jefferson. Mississippi.

Maj T S. Free.
Asst. Inspr Genl Bureau of Freedmen &c.
State of Mississippi.

Major.
At your request I have the honor to submit to you the following Report of the condition and the interests of the Freedmens Bureau at this Post.

On the 27th day of July 1865, I entered upon my present duties in accordance with orders and instructions from Major Geo D. Reynolds, A.A. Commissioner Freedmens Bureau, S.D. of Miss. I immediately issued the enclosed circular marked A. and from that day until recently, (since the withdrawal of the troops from this Post Sept 15th 1865,) my office has been crowded with business.

I cannot give you a better idea of the status of affairs as I found them, and of my labors in the County and the advance and improvement of the interests of the Freedmen, than by giving you the following extract form my tri-monthly Report to Maj Geo. D. Reynolds, A. A. Comr. Freed. Bureau.

The number of inhabitants is approximated as follows;

White Population   2.806
Black Population   7.449.
Total             10.255
Plantations          450.

The people, both white and black, are more orderly and peaceable, and, since the close of the