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Bureau Refugees Freedmen
and Abandoned Lands

Office. Supt. 4th Dist. Va,
Gordonsville Va. Feby. 12th 1866,

Col. O. Brown
Asst. Com'r

Colonel, 

I would respectfully recommend that the following named buildings be ordered to be sold at public auction at the earliest possible date. The buildings are of no use either to the Bureau or for other purposes of the Govt.

I would further state that having no guard it is impossible for me to protect these buildings from being depredated upon by various parties whom it is impossible to detect. 

1 One Stable
1 One Store House
3 Blacksmith Shops
1 Work Shop

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Transcription Notes:
depredate \DEP-ruh-dayt\ verb. 1 : to lay waste : plunder, ravage. 2 : to engage in plunder. ---------- Reopened for Editing 2023-07-31 17:51:12 ---------- Reopened for Editing 2023-08-01 16:14:34 Reviewed and changed when to whom (last sentence) AW 8-1-23