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Bureau Refugees Freedmen and A.L.
Office Asst Supt Sub-Dist No. 10. 7th Dist Dept
of the Potomac, Comprising the Counties of
Augusta and Highland; Staunton Va. Nov. 30th /66

Captain R.S. Lacey
Supt 7th Dist Va
Lynchburg Va

Captain:

I have the honor to submit the following Report of "Bureau Affairs" in this Sub-Dist for the month of November 1866

The condition of the Freedpeople is very unpromising, I have had a large number of complaints from them to the effect that their employers refuse to pay them, and when they find that their only redress is through the Civil Courts they prefer to let the debts go, as they have no confidence in being able to obtain redress through that channel, and even when they try that method, the Circuit Court is much behind in its trials, and while waiting they might starve; - besides they would find it a very difficult thing to obtain work were it known that they had instituted