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officers and agents of the Bureau, I have been making out their bills against such persons that they have been working for.  But in most case the civil officers refuse to act on them unless they pay their fee's in advance, which a great many of, the colored people are unable to do.  The Freedmen are as a general thing in my Sub District industrious and comply with their contracts

I am Very Respectfully
Your Obet Serv't
B.F. Shaum
Bvt Capt V.R.C. & Asst Supt B R F &c

Thro.
Captain R.S. Lacey
A.Q.M. & Supt. 7th Dist.
Lynchburg, Va.