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Office. Asst Supt. Bureau R.F. and A.L.
Lunenburg Co. Ho. April 30th 1866.

Capt James A. Bates
A.A.A. General

Captain-
I have the honor to [[strikethrough]] the [[/strikethrough]] report that the freedmen in this County are working faithfully, and I think trying to do well. I have just completed the registration of their marriage, and they seem much pleased, that they are legally married. I had the freedmen of each magisterial district meet me at the voting precinct of it, and there registered their marriages. I addressed them at each meeting, on the duties and relations of the matrimonial state, exhorted them to industry, prudence, temperance and honesty, to a strict observance of the contracts they had fairly made, urged them to use all endeavors to educate their children, explained to them, that they had been endowed with all the civil-

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