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Bureau of R.F & A.L.
Hd. Qurs. Asst. Supt. 8th. District
Dept. of the Potomac,
Christiansburg Mont'y Co. Va.
January 27th. 1867.

Bvt. Brig. Genl O Brown
A.A.A.G.

General -
I have the honor to make the following report relative to the affairs of the Bureau in my Sub-District, comprising the counties of Montgomery, Pulaski and Giles, 8th Dist. Dept. of the Potomac, during the past month. 
Very generally the Freedmen have contracted with their former Employers, at low wages, for three, Six and twelve months; having in many instances failed to secure the privilege of renting and tilling the Land, for one third of the crop.

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