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HEAD QUARTERS 7TH SUB-DISTRICT of VIRGINIA
Bureau of Freedmen and Abandoned Lands
Lynchburg Va, June 1867

Bvt Brig Genl O. Brown.
Assistant Commissioner
State of Virginia

General

I have the honor to make in compliance with Circular No 5 C.S. the following "Report of inspection in Division No 5 Botetourt and Bedford Counties.

In this Division every interest is engrossed in the pressing duties of the season  I heard little complaint and from appearance should Judge the General condition of the freedmen as good. There is an improvement in wages over last year and so far as I could learn there is a better disposition evinced generally to render compensation. There has been a fair demand for able bodied labor so much so as to give upward tendency to prices over the old rule of Victuals and clothes.

The Magistrates and Juries of this Division seem to act fairly generally and but few

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