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Bureau of Refugees Freedmen & Abd. Lands
Office Asst Supt. Sub Dist Stafford & King Co.
Fredericksburg Va Sept 30th 1866.

Brevt. Brig Genl. O Brown
Richmond Va

General.
In compliance with Circular No 6. Head Quarters Asst Commissioner Bureau of Refugees Freedmen & Abd Lands. Richmond Va. dated January 29, 1866.

I have the honor to report that the affairs of the Bureau in my Sub District are in a fair condition.

The feeling existing between whites and blacks is somewhat better than it was a month ago, but white refugees or Freedmen do not get justice in all cases in the Civil Courts where the action is for debt.

A case lately came under my observation where a refugee was the party to a civil suit in which the verdict rendered was in my opinion (as well as

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