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Bureau R.F and A. Lands.
Memphis Sub District
Chief Superintendent's Office
Memphis Tenn Oct 11" 1866

Lieut S. W. Groesbeck
A.A.A. General. Nashville Tenn.

Lieut.
I have the honor to submit the following report of the condition of the affairs of the Bureau in the Memphis Sub. District for the month of September 1866.

But [[strikethrough]] very [[/strikethrough]] few reports of outrages have been reported to this Office during the past month. Yet several complaints have been made by parties who stated that they had been forced to leave their employers without being able to obtain a settlement for their services during the summer. This complaint appears to be pretty general throughout the entire district. Upon this subject Mr. R. C. Scott Supt for Haywood County in a communication dated Oct 1st, states -

"I am called on by both white & Black and ask the question, who is to attend to dividing the present crop between the employer & freedman and make the settlement between them. I am at a loss as to what to say to