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Office Asst Supt Bureau R.F. & A.L..
Wilson's Landing, Charles City Co. Va.
April 30th 1866.

Col. O. Brown,
Asst Com. State of Va.
Richmond Va.

Colonel:
I have the honor to report, pursuant to Circular No. 6 from your Hd Qrs of Jan. 29th 1866, that the condition of Bureau affairs in the Sub. Dist of Charles City Co. 9th Dist Va., has undergone but little change since my last report, of March 31st 1866.
The state of feeling between the whites and the Freedmen is neither better nor worse than last month, the freedpeople being to a great extent suspicious and distrustful of the whites, and they, on the other hand, after their former experience as masters, having a great reluctance in most instances to consider the negro as in any respect, their equal before the law.
The County tax question has been a source of considerable difficulty. The tax as levied is justly felt by the freed-people with their slender means to be a most unequally distributed burden. The collection of this tax, however,

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