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Bureau of Refugees Freedmen &c
Office Supt 2d Dist
Petersburg Dec 1 1865

Col. O. Brown
Asst Comm'r &c
Richmond Va

Colonel

Complaints are being made to this office every day of negroes from Southampton Co who are being driven from the plantations where they have worked during the past year, without pay or being allowed to take any clothing etc; in some cases the injustice done the Freedmen is very grievous. I understand from them that there is no officer of the Bureau in that Co.

Owing to that fact, and complaints coming to this office so frequently, I lay the matter before you

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