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

Office Ass't. Supr'dt
Bureau R. F. & A. L.
Farmville Va. April 1st 1866

Capt. Stuart Barnes.
Supr'dt 2d Dist. Va,

Capt. 

In compliance with existing orders, I have the honor to submit the following report of the condition of affairs of the Bureau in the counties of Prince Edward and Cumberland Va. for the month ending March 31st 1866.

Condition of the Freedmen

They are generally contented in their new homes, and are commencing to work with a vigor and industry quite commendable. Numbers of them have rented small tracts of land and have set to work to raise a small crop of corn or tobacco and judging from present indications are in a fair way of doing well.  There are still large numbers of freedmen and women travelling around the country in search of husbands, wifes, mothers and other relatives, who have been seperated for years.  Reports have been circulated that the counties are  full of idle roving vagrants, the above are the parties they refer to and I do not believe the can be considered vagrants.