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Office Asst Supt. R F & A.L.
Sussex Co. Va. March 12th 1866.

Capt Stuart Barnes
A.Q.M. Supt 2nd Dist Va.
Petersburg Va.

Captain
In compliance with instructions from your office I have the honor to submit a second statement of Freedmans affairs in this County, for the month of February 1866. During the month of February the Bureau in this Co. was not self sustaining. Most contracts for the year having been made in Dec. & Jan. So much rain, and streams so high that little or no business could be transacted out of the Office, travel was nearly entirely blocked.
The state of feelings between the whites and blacks are amicable, little prejudice existing & no collisions having been brought to my notice: the freeldmen are generally well, and profitably employed, and work cheerfully for their employers, and do not know of any idlers, or vagrants among the freedmen in this County, and not one drawing rations from the Govt, - no indigents male or females.

I have the honor to be Capt
Your Most Obedient Servant
J.M. Tracy, Capt V.R.C.
& Asst. Supt. R.F & A.L.
 

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