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L 804

Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and ABandoned Lands,
Headquarters Assistant Commissioner of State of North Carolina,
Raleigh, N.C. 27th May 1865.

Maj. Gen. O.O. Howard
Commissioner
Washington, D.C.

General:
I have the honor to submit the following report of operations and business transactions of the Bureau in this State during the month of April 1868.
Since my last report an event of great importance in the history of this State and eaqually so in the records of the country has transpired.  The question of the adoption of the new Constitution, and the election of State and local officers as required by the Reconstruction Acts, was submitted to the people upon the 21st 22nd and 23rd of April, and after an election continuing through those days