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Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands,
HEAD QUARTERS SUPERINTENDENT 2nd DISTRICT,
Petersburg, Va., Sept. 30th 1866.

General O. Brown
A.A. Adj. Genl
Bureau R F and A L 
Richmond Va.

General:
In compliance with Letter of Instructions No. 3, June 1st 1866. from your office, I have the honor to report as the result of the inspection of most of the Sub-District of my Superintendency, as follows:

Dinwiddie Co., Lt. J.B. Clinton

1st.- General condition in some respects encouraging. The negroes are industrious but the present crop 'tis feared will not sustain them during the year.

2nd.- There is a disposition shown to hear the complaints of freedmen (See general remarks)

3rd.- The Registry of Marriages is progressing as rapidly as the circumstances will permit.

4th.- The civil authorities decline to care for the indigent freedmen unless the vagrant law can be enforced; the authorities do not deny their ability to care for them.

5th.- The supply of labor is about equal to the demand.

6th.- There are no Schools and the colored population is too sparse to make encouraging their establishment except

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