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Bureau R. F. & A. Lands
Hd Qrs Sixth District Va
Staunton Va Aug 8th 1865

Col O. Brown, Assist. Commissioner Va.
Richmond Va

Colonel
I have the honor to report that because of the fact that I entered upon my duties as Superintendent of this District nearly at the end of the month of July, I am unable to make the Monthly Reports in detail as ordered. The Sixth District extends on two hundred (200) miles in length in a straight line upon the map with incomplete and irregular communications between the principal points along that line until my novelty when a mail route was established between here and Winchester.  The only Railroad in operation extends partially across this section of the District.

No Homes or Lands have as yet been acquired, and no funds received from any source

For lack of time in which to obtain this information, no reliable report can now be made of the condition of the Freedmen in this district.  From limited and superficial information it would appear that they are generally at work and willing to work, though not treated very kindly by their former masters and others, who in the presence of the military practically acknowledge their freedom while they tell the Freedmen that they are not yet free

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