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War Department,
Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands,

Yorktown Va., Feby 15 1867

Bvt Brig. Genl S.C. Armstrong.
Superintendent 5th District

General,

You will at once proceed to effect the distribution of the freedmen now collected in camps or colonies in this Sub District, viz : at Newton, Slabtown, and on the Winn farm James farm, Saunders farm, Warren farm, and Jaley farm, and at such other points where they have been placed by Government officers, and where the premises which they now occupy, have been restored to former owners.

It is believed that this can be accomplished by you without the use of force. You will notify the freedpeople that, within a given time (say ten days), they must make contracts with the