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Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands,
Head Quarters Assistant Commissioner, State of Virginia
Richmond, Va., June 26th 1867.

Bvt. Col. John. W. Jordan
A.S.A. Comr. (thro. Maj. Stone)

Colonel,
The following statement made yesterday by a colored man, living near the line of Charlotte and Mecklenburg Co's, is forwarded for your information.- He reported, that he had been informed by the colored people living in his neighborhood, that on the 10th of June, a meeting was held at Wyllisburg, Charlotte, Co., and speeches made to the colored people by Col. Clarkston & others - that Frank Jones Barnes, living at that place, read an address to the colored people, stating that if they voted for them (their former masters &c) they would have 40 acres of land given them and $50 for a start.- 

A colored man spoke after Barnes, saying that he was from Hd. Qrs. and that the colored people would be given 40 acres of land and $100 to start with.-

Yours respty
Garrick Mallery
Capt 43rd Infty.
A.A.A. Genl.

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