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Bureau of R.F & A Lands
Office of the Ass't Supt Counties of
Culpeper & Rappahannock Va
Culpeper C.H. Va
Aug 31st -/66

Bvt Brig Gen'l O. Brown.
A A A Gen'l B.R.F & A.L State of Va
Richmond Va

General.
I have the honor to report in Compliance with Circular No 6 dated H'd Qr's Asst Comm'r B.R.F & A.L Richmond Va Jany 29th 1866, the condition of Bureau affairs for the month of August 1866. for the counties of Culpeper & Rappak Va 

By virtue of special Orders No 25. dated Hd Qrs Supt 4th Va Dist B.R.F & A.L Gordonsville Va July 27th 66 I assumed charge of the counties above named, relieving 2nd Lieut W.S. Chase V.R.C at that place. "I find the feeling now existing between the whites & Freedmen to be somewhat of distrust on the part of the Freedmen tward the whites especially in reference to the coming settlement of contracts for labor, &c this feeling principally prevails in the mountain districts of Rappak Co Va" 

The whites in both counties seem to exercise a controling influence over the 

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