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Bureau R.F. and A Lands
Office Chief Superintendent.
Nashville Sub District.
Nashville Feb'y 18th 1867.

Bt Maj Genl. Wm. P. Carlin
Asst Comr. Tenn.

General.
In compliance with instructions received from the Office of the Asst Comr. State of Tenn. I have the honor to make the following report for the month of January 1867.

Joel B. Smith, Supt for Coffee Co. reported Feby 1st 67. The relations existing between the colored and white citizens of this Co. are agreeable. The freedmen have followed their avocations of business without molestation. There is little or no vagrancy among them their industry and morality would entitle them to encomiums of praise from all impartial observers- it is to be regretted however that his good feeling and existence of affairs is not more general. In the county of Franklin in that part of it lying contiguous to, and southwest from this place. Freedmen have been mistreated to an extent amounting to cruelty. Two instances have come to