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[[stamp]] THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE UNITED STATES [[/stamp]]

Office Asst Supt Bureau R,F & A,L
Halifax Court House Va
March 1st 1866

Capt Stuart Barnes
AQM & Supt 2d District

Capt
I have the honor to report the condition of affairs in the greater portion of Halifax county to be very flattering as regards the workings of the Bureau,

The greater portion of the Freedmen are laboring cheerfully and are in most cases receiving good wages, under all the circumstances. 

In some parts of the County, hog stealing is carried on to a considerable extent among the Freedmen, in many instances aided by White men. I am doing all I can to break it up, and when detected and brought before the Freedmens Court of this County, the parties are severely

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