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246/Vol 2, 85

Sub Dist of Talladega
Bureau R.F. and A.L.
Office Sub Asst Comr
Talladega Ala July 1st 1868

Maj Geo. Shorkley
A.A.A. General
Montgomery Ala

Major

In compliance with Circular No 11, C.S. I have the honor to report the affairs of the Bureau, and Freedmen in this Sub Dist. as follows.
There seem to be labor for all the Freedmen that will work. I find but very few idle, the larger portion of them are employed in the cotton and other fields.
The only complaint that are made by the Freedmen, are that parties who they have worked for, will not pay, all such complaints I have referred to the Justices of the Peace with directions, that they report the result of the investigations to this office: the most of these complaints

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