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Office Asst Supt
Bureau RF & AL
Nansemond & Isle of Wright Counties Va
Suffolk May 31st 1866


Captain I A Bates 
A A A G

Sir I have the honor to report the condition of the affairs in my sub district for the month of May as follows.

The colored schools are in a continued encouraging condition ; one additional has been opened in Nansemond since my last report. The teachers of the Suffolk school are still subjected to daily annoyance by the pupils of one "Captain" [[Cansey's?]] school. He declines to attempt abating the nuisance I think him a bad hearted disloyal man exulting in any trouble that can be caused for the officers and employees of the Government I have appealed to the Major who has officially decided that the hounding of teachers by the cry of "Hep" "Hep" "Hep" is not a nuisance and he fails to abate it. This case has been reported to you, some time since.

Most of the freedmen about in my sub district are at work, as negroes generally work, that is four days in the week. I issue no rations or clothing to them. The small pox has disap-

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