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Office Sub-Assistant Commissioner,
BUREAU of R., F. AND A. L.,
Wharton Wharton County, Texas, April 30th, 1868. 

To Lieut I P. Richardson
A. A. A. Gen'l
Bureau of R. F. and A. B. 
Austin, Texas, 

Sir:
In compliance with the Circular Letter, dated Headquarters, Bureau of Refugees, Freedman and Abandoned Lands, State of Texas, Galveston, December 31, 1866, I have the honor to submit the following Report for this month ending April 30th, 1868, Since my last there has been little variation in my duties and nothing of importance to report  none of those terrible outrages which often slain the records of every county in Texas have occurred in my sub district during the present month _ Both the Planters and Freedmen are busy in the collection of their crops and up to the present time their is strong apearance that neither their labor or their hopes will be in vain. The Freedmen are doing very well. They are nearly all at work well behaved peaceable a biding and deserve more praise than they will generally obtain credit before