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BUREAU OF REFUGEES, FREEDMEN AND ABANDONED LANDS, 
Head Quarters Assistant Sub-Assistant Commissioner, 
4th DIVISION---FRANKLIN COUNTY---,
7th SUB-DISTRICT, STATE OF VIRGINIA,
Rocky-Mount, Va., August 31st, 1867.

Bvt. Brig. Genl. O Brown.
Asst. Comr.

General: 
Pursuant to Circular No. 16, Current Series from your Head Quarters, I have the honor to report as follows,
No supplies have for over a year past been furnished by the United States to any destitute in my District. The County, after its own fashion, takes care of its own paupers - both colored and white, there being at present ten of each class in the established Poor House, which is capable of accommodating about forty in all. - There are no indigent colored persons in charge of the Bureau, in my Division. In carrying out Par. 2, of G.O. No. 51, Hd. Qtr. First Military District State of Va., I have served an Official Copy of the same on the President of the Board of Overseers of the Poor for the County. 
I have several times, in my various stated Reports, taken occasion to remark on the neglected and exposed condition of the Poor House, and its unfortunate inmates - more especially as having reference to the Winter Season. Desiring to secure the observation of another person on the subject, by my request Mr L.K. Holmes, one of the Registering Officers appointed from Richmond for this County, made a visit to the institution in question; and I now have the