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Bureau of Freedmen and Abandoned Lands
OFFICE OF ASST SUPT SUB-DIST EMBRACING
CAMPBELL, APPOMATTOX AMERHEST & NELSON, Cos. Va.
Lynchburg Va. Feby 28th 1867.

Brevet Brig. Genl. O. Brown
A.A.A.G. Department of the Potomac

General:
The following report in compliance with Circular No. 6. C.S. dated Hd Qurs, Asst. Comr. State of Va. Richmond Va. Jany 29th 1866 is respectfully submitted.

Contracts for the past year, have been pretty generally settled and much more satisfactorily than could have been expected. Labor is scarse and able bodied men command from $10 @ 15 per month. Many of the factories have gone into operation, which has resulted in clearing the streets of Lynchburgh pretty thoroughly of idlers, so that I think that the issue of rations can be stopped the coming month.

The schools are prospering and I am glad to report have not been interfered with in any way.

The citizens seem to be alarmed at the idea of the early resumption of military rule, & I imagine the colored people are deriving benefit therefrom. The colored man seems to be a kind of nondescript at present & the whites being uncertain whether he is a man or "Nigger" - are cautious [[how they touch him?]]. The prospects of the early passage of the law giving them the right of suffrage, has started discussions on the subject, & I have heard men say who were bitterly opposed to negro suffrage, that they did not care - that the whites can control their votes. In the mean time the colored people are quietly pursuing their avocations, with a pretty clear idea of what is going 

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