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Bureau R. F. and A. Lands
Office Assnt Sub Dist Yazoo
Yazoo City Miss Sept 1st 1867

Colonel H. W. Smith,
A.A.G. Sub Dist Miss

Colonel,

I have the honor in compliance with Circular Letter from your Office dated July 25th 1867 to submit the following report.

I. The number of Freed People in this sub dist is somewhere near (23.500) twenty three thousand five hundred.

II. Owing to the climate and low flat country many of them are in bad health but they are generally well cared for their condition under the circumstances I consider favorable. The great majority of them have been well paid, but there are a number of decided exceptions to this rule.

III About two thirds 2/3 of the Freedmen