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Sub Dist of Talladega
Bureau R F & A L
Office Sub Asst Comm
Talladega Ala March 8th

Maj George Shorkley
A.A.A. General
Montgomery, Ala

Maj,

I have the honor herewith to report the operation of the Bureau  RF & AL in this Sub Dist for the month ending on the 31st day of March 1868.
The labor system is attended with confusion, giving to the indisposition on the port of the present civil officer  to enforce the law; who has to some extent lost confidence in the employing.
A great many in the colored men are employed in the construction of the Selma Rome & Dalton R.R. Those remaining on the plantations are most invariably laboring for a share of the crop. During the month, I have visited different loyalties in this county; and in and out of my offices, I have superintended fourteen (14) different settlements where freedmen were interested, to the satisfaction of the colored people.
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