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Office Sub. Asst. Com. B.R.Fs A.S.
Demopolis Ala. December 1st 1867

Col. O.D. Kinsman
A.A.A. Genl. Hd Qrs Dist. Ala
Montgomery Ala.

Colonel.
I have the honor to transmit herewith the following "General Report" of the operations of the Bureau in this Sub District during the month of November, in accordance with instructions received from your Office. 
The number of complaints made at this Office are daily increasing; most are fraudulent division of the crops by the planters; it is evident, that if not the majority of them, at least a good many will not hesitate to take advantage of the ignorance of the Freedmen, in endeavoring to cheat them out of their hard-earned wages, and the means which the former apply or applied to accomplish this, were quite numerous. In consequence of the bad crop of 1866, the Freedmen were left at the end of that year, without money, without provisions, and therefore had to throw themselves more or less in the hands