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Office of Asst. Supt. B. R. F. + A.L.
Sub Dist of Essex, King + Queen + Middlesex Co's.
Tappahannock, Essex Co. Va. Sept. 29. 1866.

Bol. Brig. Genl. O. Brown,
A.A.A.G Bureau R.F. & A.L.

General,

I have the honor to forward, through the office of Supt 6th Dist. to your Head Quarters, the following report in compliance with Circular No. 6, of date January 29. 1866,:
A great many of the Freedmen who have been working on shared in the crops this year are not going to have enough to keep them through the winter, although a good crop of corn has been made, for the have to pay such high rents for the land and houses; after the rent is taken out of the crop, which is one-fourth or one-third for the land, and from $25 to $125 for a house, then they receive from one-third to one-half of the balance of the corn crop, in come instances they get one-half of all the crops after taking out the rent. The citizens themselves to not like the idea of hiring the Freedmen by giving them