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Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen & Abandoned Lands.
Head Quarters Asst. Commissioner, State of Virginia.
Richmond, Va., October 4 1865.

Captain Stuart Barnes
Supt 2d District

Captain
Complaints are made that the Freedmen living at Bermuda Hundred are living a vagrant life, plundering the planters in the neighborhood.

Please cause these reports to be investigated: have Circular of Sept 19th read and explained to them and assure them they must work.

Very respy &c
H. B. Scott
Lieut Col. Ins Genl

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