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Office Bureau R.F. & A.L. Sub. Dist. of Vicksburg Vicksburg Aug 31st 1867 Bvt. Maj. Gen. A.C. Gillem Asst. Commissioner for Miss. General In Complyance [[Compliance]] with existing Orders, I have the honor to report as follows. The number of Freedmen in this Sub. District is believed to be about fifteen thousand. 15000- Their condition is fair as a rule. There are exception however. Some by misfortune some by the dishonesty of their employers have failed to recover proper remuneration for the labor, & others again by indigence & Idleness have failed to earn a subsistence & are therefore more or less destitute. This I think has occurred most frequently where they have been working for a share of the crop Many of them who start off