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Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, Headquarters Superintendent, Ninth District, Va. Fort Monroe, Va., April 13th 1866 Colonel O. Brown Asst. Commissioner Colonel; I have the honor to request that the Superintendents of Districts in this State may be instructed to send requisitions for labor which they may have, or can get, and are unable to fill, to this office. i think this District can supply a large number of laborers to those which are underpopulated with negroes. I am Sir With Great Respect Your Obdt Servt Saml C Armstrong Supt 9th Dist. Va.