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Bureau of Refugees Freedmen and Abandoned Lands
Hd Qrs Asst Supt 8th Dist Va
Marion Smyth Co Va June 25th 66

General
I have the honor to make the following report relative to the Affairs in General as pertains to the Freedmens Bureau in my Sub Dist.

I have not been furnished with any means of transportation over my Sub Dist and have not learned the condition of all the Freedmen in the Sub Dist.

There are many complaints to me by Freedmen against white citizens employing them and after their labor is finished, declining to pay them. I instruct them that it can only be obtained by a civil process. I learn on investigating these
cases, that the white citizens generally make or bring in their acts in such a manner, as to bring the Freedmen in debt.

I have indevered to show the Freedmen the utility of having contracts in writing

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