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Office Asst. Sub. Asst. Commis B of R.F.&A. Lands Division of Patrick and Henry County Virginia Martinsville Va July 30th 1867 Bvt Brig Genl O Brown Asst Commissioner B of R.F. & A Lands Richmond Va General. Pursuant to instructions contained in Circular Letter from War Dept. Bureau of Ref Freedmen & Abandoned Lands dated Washington D.C. May 15th 1867 I have the honor to make the following report. Previous to receiving the instructions mentioned in the above named Circular, in fact ever since I have been on duty in the Bureau, I have endeavored upon all occasions that I could to exhort upon them the necessity of being temperate; since I received the aforeto mentioned instructions I have spoken upon the subject in the various meeting they have upon sunday and although I have not taken any steps in organizing a Division of the Sons of Temperance among them, I am only waiting until they get their schools established, when they will have some place of meeting. It is a difficult thing
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