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BUREAU REFUGEES, FREEDMEN AND ABANDONED LANDS,
OFFICE ASS'T. SUP'T. SUB-DISTRICT EMBRACING NOTTOWAY AND LUNENBURG COUNTIES, VA.
BURKEVILLE, VA., FEB 28TH 1867.

Bt Brig. Gen. O. Brown.
A.A. Adjutant Gen'l,

In compliance with existing orders, I have the honor to submit the following Report of the Condition of Affairs of the Bureau R.F. & A.L. for this Sub Dist. for the month ending February 28th 1867.

The majority of the Freedmen are at work, and but very few are idle though they receive but a trifling and inadequate compensation for their services.  Still I  have advised them to accept of the present rates for labor rather than be idle.  owing to the improvidence of the Freedmen, and the extortion and swindling practiced upon them by their employers and storekeepers during the past year, but very few of them are any better off now, pecuniarily, than they were a year ago.  They have suffered a serious injustice by their employers assuming the authority to divide the crops

Transcription Notes:
Pecuniary = concerning or involving money