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WRAPPER.

Bureau of R.F. and A.L.,
Office Ass't Supt. Eliz. City Co. VA. 
Fort Monroe Va.Nov. 13th 1866.

Respectfully returned to Genl. S.C. Armstrong, Supt. 5th Dist. Va.

The class of freedmen herein reported get their living by taking such "odd jobs" as may be found from day to day. There is but little doubt however, that many of them depend for subsistence upon petty depredations upon the community at large. Every effort is made to include these people to accept permanent employment and whenever found guilty of infraction of the law, they are severely punished; but in a community as large as this there must necessarily be found a certain class who

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