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lands in the Sub. Dist. and a census of the colored population of the Sub. Dist., at the same time dispersing through the county the information of the establishment of the Bureau and it's purposes. 

The Sub. Dist. of Londoun is one of the most fertile of the State and I find upon my list of lands to be transferred to the Bureau some of the best farms in the county, probably as many as sixteen thousand (16,000) acres in the aggregate. All through the county labor is in great demand. In this county there has always been a good deal of true loyalty and I shall have much co-operation in my work. I desire to get a good Asst. Supt. established as soon as can be at Leesburg. There are no troops at all stationed in the county but good order prevails and an officer with a very few man could remain safely at Leesburg.

As troops are stationed in the Sub. Dist. of Fauquier and the state of affairs is such in most of the county that it would not be safe for an officer to be stationed there with less than fifty (50) mounted men. I have as yet no list of lands abandoned or confiscated in Fauguier. 

Prince William County amounts to very little. There are some good farms on the Potomac but they are none of them in possession of Freedmen, - none confiscated but have been sold.