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Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen & Abandoned Lands.
Head Quarters Asst. Commissioner, State of Virginia.
Richmond, Va., October 24 1865.

Captain Stuart Barnes
Supt 2d District

Captain
It is reported here on good authority that some of the Freedmen at City Point who are out of employment have refused offers of work at $8 per month and board. I am instructed to inform you that such a course must find no countenance from the Bureau, but that on the contrary, should you find such instances you will at once shut them off from rations, and any assistance whatever of fuel, quarters, or anything of the kind. Such cases must be made an example of for the benefit of the others.

Very respectfully your obd't serv't
H. B. Scott
Lieut Col. Ins. Genl

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