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Office Asst Supt of Freedmen
Surry C.H. Va June 30th 1866

Col O. Brown Asst Com. State of Va

Colonel

I have the honor to make the following Report of the condition of Freedmens Affairs in the County of Surry for the month of June. 

The relations between the Whites and Blacks are of a quiet, orderly, and promising character. Wages are indeed low, but are, generally, paid with a punctuality not always met with in a county so impoverished, and in which money is so scarce, as Virginia at the present day.
 
During the month not a single case of personal violence has been preferred to me by any of the Freed people; and but few complaints have been made by members of either class of citizens against members of the other class. 

As yet there are no Freedmens schools in the county - a want which I regret, and will endeavor to remedy as soon as possible. 

The colored people have no seperate place of Divine Worship; but they are kindly received in the churches of the Whites, and at the Episcopal Church of St. Andrew, near Bacons Castle, seperate services have been held for them by the pastor, just as for other worshippers, and their devout and becoming deportment has gained for them a good deal of credit and respect. 

But few of them are in indigent circumstances, and all of these have been taken off my hands by the Overseers of the Poor.
 
No Blacks have been confined in the County jail during the month, and the transfer of criminal cases to the civil authorities has not injuriously affected their interests.
 
They are working at the growing crops, at sawing

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