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Office of Asst. Sub-Asst. Comr. Bur. R.F.&A.L.
Sub Dist. of Essex, King & Queen & Middlesex Co's. Va.
Tappahannock, Essex Co. Va. April 30. 1867.

Bvt. Brig. Genl. O. Brown.
Asst. Comr. State of Va.

General;
I have the honor to make the following report in compliance with Circular No. 6. dated Hd. Qrs. Asst. Com'r. State of Va. Richmond Va. January 29. 1866.

The feeling of the whites towards the Freedmen at present is more friendly than it has been, but the Freedmen now having a vote now accounts for that as the whites are striving in every way to influence the Freedmen to vote for the "true Southern man," and for that purpose a meeting was called for the colored men and speeches were made by men who were rabid secessionists.

The Freedmen in this Sub-Dist. seem to be doing very well, I do not hear of so many complaints from the whites that the "negro will not work;" they could