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Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, &c.,
Office Assistant Superintendent
Albemarle County, Virginia,
Charlottesville, January 31st, 1867.

Bvt. Brig. Gen. O. Brown,
Act. Asst. Adjt. Genl.,
Richmond, Va.

General:
I have the honor to report, in compliance with Circular, No. 6, series of 1866, Head Quarters Assistant Commissioner, Va., that the good state of feeling generally existing between the white and colored people of my sub-district, has continued during the present month. There are a few cases of dissatisfaction on the part of the colored people, and not without just cause as I conceive, but for which there is no remedy short of legislation.
In this State, the jurisdiction of a magistrate is limited to fifty dollars. Suit for the collection of a larger claim must be brought in the County Court a court of record, where business is conducted by rules and regulations with which the colored people are wholly unacquainted. The services of a larger are undispensable, and it rarely happens in this county, that a judgment, except by default, is obtained under a period of several months.
I am informed that where a claim is more