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Bureau of RF and A Landss
Hd. Qurs Asst Sub Asst Comr
Surrey and Sussex Counties Virg
Waverly Sussex Co April 30th 1867

Brvt Brig General O Brown
Asst Comr B of RF and AL
State of Virginia Richmond
General
I have the honor to report that the state of feeling existing between the whites and blacks in my Sub District is very bitter and, especially in Sussex County A large portion of the whites are loath to pay the freedmen for their work unless compelled to do so by law which causes considerable trouble and loss of time to the freedmen 
The feeling in Surry County is considerable, better than it is in Sussex and I think it owing to the intelligent class of Magistrates in that County who are disposed, to listen to the complaints of the freemen, and give them proper instructions in obtaining justice before the Courts and from the people 
There is very little opposition to freedmens Schools

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