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Bureau. R.F. and A. Lands.
Off Asst Supt Greensville. Co
Hicksford Va June 30th 1866

Sir

I have the honor to submit the following monthly report of the condition of the Freedmen of Greensvill County. Va.

So far as I have been able to observe the Freedmen are well disposed towards their former Masters and with some few exceptions, labor as faithfully and diligently as when in a state of involuntary servitude. 

The white citizens, however, show a disposition to ignore, the authority of the officers of the Freedmens Bureau, not openly 'tis true, yet, in such a manner, that the Freedmen observe it, and speak of it. 

I find, the Civil 

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