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Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen & Abandoned Lands,
Headquarters Assistant Commissioner State of North Carolina,
Raleigh N.C. 8th February 1868.

L. 569

Maj. Genl O.O. Howard
Commissioner
Washington D.C.

General:
I have the honor to submit the following report of the Operations of the Bureau in this State during the month of January 1868.

At the commencement of a new year the attention of those in charge of the Bureau was directed to the unsatisfactory results of laborers of the farming contracts of the preceeding year; with a view to correct if possible the error in the future.

Much that was beyond human conduct was the primary course of these difficulties, but want of judgment, injudicious management and a disregard of the welfare of laborers were largely combined in the