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Bureau R.F. and A. Lands
Office Chief Superintendent
Nashville Sub District
Nashville Dec 15th 1866.

Bt Brig. Genl. J.R. Lewis
Asst Commr Tenn.
General,
In obedience to instruction received I furnish the following report of state of feeling and outrages perpetrated in the Nashville Sub District for the Month of November 1866.

Joel B. Smith Supt for Coffee Co reports Nov 30th 1866. "The Freedmen of this county continue industriously engaged in their various avocations of business those that are industrious receive good wages, and with a due regard to economy would soon begin to accumulate and provide means that would make them to secure permanent houses. There has been violations of contracts and threats of bodily injury reported to the Supt. but after fair and impartial investigation of causes, and facts, is satisfied that complainants (Freedmen) have received full amounts due them from contracts and that threats of injury were mutually exchanged, as is ordinarily the