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The owners of the "Sinclair", "Bates" and "Smith" Farms have agreed to renew their leases with all rent-paying tenants; and only those have been ordered to move who will neither work nor pay rent.
The American Missionary Association require that portion of the "Wood Farm", now occupied by certain freed-men, for the erection of school buildings, but have not only given permission to the tenants of said track to remain in their present location till the spring of 1868, but have offered each tenant one acre of land, on another portion of the same farm, free of rent, for a period of, at least, two (2) years.
Land required by freedmen can always be readily obtained on application to this office.
Mont S. Reed
1st Lieut. A.S.A. Com

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STATE OF VIRGINIA BUREAU OF R.F. & A.L.
RECD
HD Qrs ASST
COMMISSIONER
DEC 16
1867
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Hd Qr's Supt 5th Dist
Dec 12
1867
Received
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S. 584 R.F.& A.L. Va. 3rd Vol. 1867
Bureau R. F. and A. L.
Head Quarters, 5th Sub-District, V
Fort Monroe, Va. Dec 13 1867

Respectfully returned to Bvt. Brig. Gen. O. Brown, Asst. Com Va., inviting attention to indorsement of Lieut. M. S. Reed A.S.A. Com with request that it be referred back through the channels through which the within communication came in order that the implied charges of Dr. Seymour against the Bureau at this place, his misstatement as to the treatment of freedmen by landholders, and reflection upon a highly worthy and useful religious association of the North maybe properly understood. I am cognizant of the facts alleged by Lieut Reed and fully

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