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Fort Monroe Aug. 26/65 Col. O. Brown Asst. Com. B. R. & A. Lands Colonel I have the honor to report that we are overrun with applications to rent lands for next year. It is now time to prepare land for a fall crop of wheat, & hence the reason. I notice a printed list of farms set apart for the use of the Freedmen's Bureau. Several of them are given up or sold & very few of them are desirable except to rent as farms. Several are now rented by whites. There are quite a number better adapted to our wants not included & really among the worst Rebel farms. Can the list be correct or enlarged? Or shall we warn off the white occupants & make the best we can of these. If you see any objiction to leasing these and other clearly abandoned lands for the year to come please send derictions, &c &c over