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Office of Asst. Supt. R.F. & A.L.
Tappahannock, Essex Co. Va.
March 27. 1866.

Col. O. Brown,
Asst. Com'r. Bureau of R.F. & A.L.
Richmond, Va.

Colonel:
I have the honor to forward through the office of Supt. 4th District Va. the following report showing the conditions of Bureau affairs in this Sub-Dist.

The feeling that exists between the whites and Freedmen is not as friendly as might be; the Freedmen are becoming greatly enraged at their former masters for not paying them for their services last year; the most of them are now working on shares and have nothing to live upon only what the employer furnishes them, which he takes out of their share of the crops as soon as raised. There is not scarcely a night but what some persons meat house or corn house is broken open and everything taken out, the white man generally blame his former servants (whom he has not paid for their last years services) for taking it, but they cannot find out positively who the thieves are.

The people are very slow in coming to this office to have