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Consolidated Monthly Report of Asst Sub - Asst. Commissioners of the Bureau of Refugees Freedmen and Abandoned Lands for the Memphis Sub-District, for the month of June 1867 - Lieut. Col. Fred. S. Palmer, Sub-Asst. Commissioner 

[[13 columned table]]
| No. | Agents | County | Rations issued | No. of Contracts | No. of laborers | Rate per month | No. of minors apprenticed | No. of Schools | No. of Teachers | No. of Scholars | No. of outrages | Remarks |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |

| 1 | Lieut. Col. F.S. Palmer | Shelby | 1170 |   |   |   |   | 16 | 32 | 1720 |   | The rations issued to Memphis Colored Orphan Asylum |
|   |   | {Madison |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |  |   |
| 2 | Alvin Allen | {Henderson |   |   |   |   |   | 1  | 1 | 40 | 1 | Mr Allen reports suffering from destitution in Henderson & Decauter Co. |
|   |   | {Decatur |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   | 
|   |   | {Henry |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |
| 3 | Jesse A. Brown | {Benton |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   | Mr. Brown reports every thing moving along greatly in his district and |
|   |   | {Weakley |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   | the freedmen doing well  |
|   |   | {Carroll |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |
|   |   | {Gibson |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   | 3 |   |
| 4 | Joseph A. Blakemore | {Obion |   |   |   |   | 9  |   |   |   |  1 | As a general thing the freedmen are hard at work with good |
|   |   | {Dyer |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   | prospects of a fair crop |
| 5 | J.J. Holloway | {Fayette |   |   |   |   |  | 5 | 1 | 136 | 1  | The freedmen laboring faithfully and doing well |
|   |   | {Hardiman |   |   |   |   |  |   |   |   |   |   |
|   |   | {Haywood |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   | 
|   | J.L. Porter | {Lauderdale |   |   |   |   |   | 2 | 2 | 78 |   | The freedmen are doing better than they have ever done before  |
|   |   | {Tipton |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |
|   | Fielding Hurst | {McNairy | 3930 |   |   |   |   |   |   |   | 1 | The rations issued to destitute refugees & freedmen as follows: Whites 105, |
|   |   | {Hardin |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   | blacks 103. Mr. Hurst states it will be necessary to distribute more |
|   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   | rations until the crops are gathered |
| Total |   | 5100 |   |   |   | 9 | 24 | 41 | 1974 | 4 |   |
[[/end table]]

Fred S. Palmer
Lieut. Col. 1. V.R.C.
Sub - Asst. Commissioner