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Bureau Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands
Office Ass't. Sup't. Westmorland and Richmond Co's. Va
Warsaw, Richmond County Virginia.
January 31st 1867

Brv't Brig. Gen'l. O. Brown,
A.A.A. Gen'l. B.R.F.&A.L.
Richmond Va

General:
In obediance to Circular No 6, dated Head Quarters Assistant Commissioner, State of Virginia B.R.F.&A.L., Richmond, Va., January 29th 1866. I have the honor to make the following report.
The existing feeling between the Whites and the Blacks remains the same as per my last report. They are distrustful of each other. The Whites deplore the negroes freedom, and the negro deplores the exhorbant rates he has to pay for land to cultivate and houses to live in, when he gets so little per diem for his labor.
The Freedmen seem to be pretty generally at work throughout my Sub-Dist. and there is a large demand for laborers about what is called the "Forest Districts" (the inland region off the water courses.) The negroes
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