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Bureau R.F. & A. Lands
Head Qrs. 9th. Sub Dist. Va
Winchester, Va. April 1st. 1868

Bvt. Brig. Gen. O. Brown
Asst. Comr.
Richmond, Va.

General

I have the honor to submit the following Inspection Report of this Sub District, in obedience to Circular No 5, Series of 1867, from Head Qrs. Asst. Comr. State of Virginia, viz.

First Division, comprising Frederick County -

1st  The General Condition of the Freedpeople cannot be said to have much improved since last report.  The first quarter of the year is always a pinching time among laborers, and the severe weather here, has caused many privations, but except in cases of sickness of heads of families there has been no actual suffering.  The local authorities relieve cases of sickness impartially, and where such cases are known, no difficulty is experienced in providing a remedy - Of course the means of the freedpeople have decreased much during the past three months, and no contracts have been made for the present year.  The moral condition of the people is still at a low ebb.  Bastardy is far too common, and the Officers of the Law, are hopelessly blind to all such cases, where a colored woman is one of the parties.  Indeed there