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BUREAU OF REFUGEES, FREEDMEN AND ABANDONED LANDS,
HEAD QUARTERS ASS'T. SUPERINTENDENT SUB-DISTRICT (EMBRACING) 
PRINCE EDWARD, CUMBERLAND, BUCKINGHAM AND CHARLOTTE CO'S., VA.

Farmville, Va., March 31st 1867.

Maj J.R. Stone.
Supt 2nd District
Bureau of R.F.&A.L.
Petersburg Va

Major,

In compliance with Circular No VI, from Head Quarters, Asst. Comr., Bureau of R.F.& A.L. State of Va, dated at Richmond, Va, Jany 29th, 1866, I have the honor to submit the following "Report" showing the condition of "Freedmens affairs" in this sub-district for the month of March 1867.

It gives me peculiar pleasure to be able to state, that as a general thing, public sentiment toward the freedmen, is gradually opening a more seasonable aspect - This is being manifested by the interest taken in the cause of education, as well as in every other movement, which in any degree affects the interests of the colored 

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---------- Reopened for Editing 2024-03-15 18:56:18 "seasonable" may be "reasonable" ---------- Reopened for Editing 2024-03-15 21:04:48