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Office Asst. Supt. of Freedmen
Dinwiddie C.A. Va.
April 30th, 1866

Col. O. Brown
Asst Commissioner State of Va. 

Colonel
I have the honor to make the following report in regard to Freedmens Affairs in the county of Dinwiddie for the month of April. 

The mutual relations of the whites and blacks—and especially of the employers and employees of the two classes—continue to be of that pleasant and promising nature to which I referred in my report for March. Indeed I am inclined to think there is getting to be a better understanding between the two parties. at least I can confidently assert that there is less disposition on the part of the Freedmen to break their contracts, and they are becoming more diligent laborers. 

Although the small pox threatened us in the early part of the month, by breaking out in the neighborhood of Poplar Grove Church, it has entirely disappeared and I hear nothing more of it. 

The colored prisoners are now confined in the county jail on charges of stealing. I have watched the preliminary proceedings with a careful eye and see no symptions of partiality or injustice. Freedmen are heated just as white persons would be heated under the same circumstances. They are bailed for their appearance at court and easily procure the best counsel at the bar. Two that