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Bureau of Refugees Freedmen and Abd Lands
Office Asst. Supt. Sub. Dist of Stafford & King co and 
Acting Asst. Supt. Dist of Spottsylvania.
Fredericksburg Va. January 31 1867

Brevt Brig Genl. O. Brown
Richmond Va.

General
In compliance with Circular No. 6 Head Quarters Asst. Commissioner Bureau of Refugees Freedmen and Abd Lands Richmond Va, dated January 29th 1866. I have the honor to report that the feeling existing between the whites and blacks is not very good. they have no confidence in each other this will apply more particularly to the blacks who feel the necessity of submitting papers of importance to my inspection as a security to themselves against the whites. 

There is a disposition on the part of some of the Magistrates to ignore the Bureau, for example - Duff Green a Magistrate of Stafford County Va, stated to me a short time since - words to this effect - that he did not intend

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