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Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands,
Headquarters, Sub-District York and James City Counties Va.

Yorktown, Ca., September 9th 1866

General:

I have the honor to inform you, that every exertion has been made by the officer in charge of this office for the election of a "Delegate" by the "Freedmen" of York Co. to visit "Texas" and other states: in accordance with your instructions, but all without avail. Four meetings have been appointed for that purpose which were not attended, and the meetings spoken of in my last communication to convene yesterday was a failure. As I have frequently reported the "Freedmen" look with suspicion and mistrust upon any project which in their opinion has for its ultimate object their removal from this place. Every effort was made to explain the true object of the election, of the aforementioned "Delegate", and the liberality of the U. S. Government in sending a person to represent them, in order that  they might learn the true condition of affairs in the several states, where such excellent offers are presented to them: but it was