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BUREAU REFUGEES, FREEDMEN AND ABANDONED LANDS,
SUB-DISTRICT OF NASHVILLE.

Chief Superintendent's Office,
Nashville, Tenn., Nov 1st, 1866.

Bt Brig Genl J.R. Lewis
Asst Com Tenn.

General.
I have the honor to submit the following as a report for the Sub Dist of Nashville for October. Joel B Smith Supt Coffee Co reports October 31st 1866.
The freedmen of this county as a class are industriously engaged in their various occupations of support, a great many of the male adults have been engaged during the past few months in rebuilding rail road track, and working in wood. 
There has been upwards of Twenty five thousand dollars paid them by our firm alone whose Pay master informs me that there has been scarcely an differences whatever attending the settlement of their claims and that they have generally worked faithfully and industriously, they were paid at the rates of One (1) Dollar per day and furnished rations, or one dollar and fifty cents and they furnish their own