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Hdqrs 6th Div 5th Sub. dis'ct Va
Bureau R.F. & A.L.
Matthews C.H. Va. June 28th 1867

Capt.Garrick Mallory
Asst. Adj't. Genl.

Captain- 
I have the honor to submit the following report of the condition of Bureau affairs in my Sub. division for the present month. 

The Freedpeople throughout the two Counties seem to be working very well, and I hear of but few disagreements between themselves and their employers-  Still as the season for dividing the crops arrives, whatever there is of difference will come up for adjustment. I regret to say that comparatively few of the Freedmen have written contracts with the landholders for whom they are working.

The Freedpeople have a very Erroneous idea of the powers of the Bureau agent- In referring them to the Civil Authorities, as I am obliged to do, I find that they have the idea that I am refusing them the "protection" they have a right to demand. when as I need not