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Bureau Refugees Freedmen & Abandoned Lands,
Office Asst Supt Westmoreland & Richmond Co's Va
Warsaw, Richmond Co Va
February 28th 1867

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

General:
I have the honor to report in compliance with Circular No 6. dated Head Qrs Asst Com'r. B R F & A. L. State of Va. Richmond Va January 29th 1866, as follows:

The Freedmen are generally to work. They by the advice and compulsion of the Whites generally go before magistrates to have their contracts, (when they have any to inter into) signed. The negro 9 times out of 10 asks the White to come to me;- but the Whites tell them that it is not necessary now-that I have no power to sign contracts, and that they are sick and tired of the dam Freedman's Bureau.
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