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Sub-District of Montgomery,
BUREAU OF REFUGEES, FREEDMEN AND ABANDONED LANDS,
Montgomery, Ala. August 31st 1868

Col Edwin Beecher
Brvt Lt Col. U.S.V.
Assistant Commissioner State of Alabama
Bureau R. F and A. L.

Colonel;

I have the honor to submit the following "General Report of Bureau and Freedman Affairs" in the Sub District of Montgomery.  Bureau R. F and A. L. for the month of August 1868.

"Non Payment of Wages"

Ten (10) complaints of this kind, have been made by Freedmen; In which it is represented that their Employers have failed to make the necessary settlement for their labor rendered in 1867.  These cases were referred to the several Justices of the Peace, with a request that acting upon the same be taken immediately, as per the Laws of the State in such cases, which requests were complied with and action brought against the Employers in all

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