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State of Alabama,
BUREAU OF REFUGEES, FREEDMEN AND ABANDONED LANDS,
Montgomery, Ala., March 7th 1868.

Major General O.O. Howard
Commissioner &c.
Washington D.C.

General:

In compliance with Circular Order No 4. series of 1867. I have the honor to submit the following Report of operations of the Bureau and Freedmens affairs for the month of February 1868.

The late vote upon the Constitution presented to the people of the State for ratification and the violent political contest growing therefrom has called for the most active operations on the part of the Officers and Agents of the Bureau during the month - that the interests of the Freedmen might be fully protected.

Many have been discharged from