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Bureau Refugees Freedmen & A.L.

Report of Bureau Affairs in Sub. Dist "B" for the month ending January 31st 1866. By F.S. Tukey Asst. Supt.

Capt W.S. How, A.Q.M. &
Supt 6th Dist, Va
Winchester, Va.

Capt.
I have the honor to submit the following Report of Bureau affairs in this Sub. Dist:
Since I made my last Report the troops have all been withdrawn from this Sub. Dist., thereby giving me the oportunity to make the experiment as to whether the operations of the Bureau could be successfully carried on without them, or not; and I am free to say that the Civil Authorities thus far have done every thing in their power to prevent the interruption of our Schools or the operations of the Bureau. Yet I am not prepared to say by this that no troops are needed but I believe a very small number, for the purpose of making arrests, when necessary, would insure the complete success of the Bureau in the operations. It sometimes happens, and there are several cases of the kind on hand now, that men refuse to appear here when summoned; [[strikethrough]] to appear here [[/strikethrough]] that they refused to come,