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Bureau R F and A Lands
Mecklenburg County Va
Clarksville August 31st 1866

Bvt Brig Genl O Brown
A.A.A.G. Bureau. R F & A L
State of Virginia. Richmond Va

Sir

I have the honor to make the following report of Freedmen's affairs in the County of Mecklenburg Va, for the month ending August 31st 1866.

I have travelled over a large portion of this County during the past month and can (I think) write advisedly of the Condition of Freedmen's affairs in this County. 

They Freedmen are working well, but the Crops are not in A prosperous Condition which is in Consequence of the Continued drought and the Scarcity of labour,

They Freedmen (with few exceptions) require Saturdays of each week, as A holy-day, and refuse to allow the Female members of their families to work in the fields hence the scarcity of labour, destitution amongst the Colored people must follow, 

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