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Bureau Refugees, Freedmen, & Abd Lands
3rd Dist 4th Sub Dist
Charlottesville Va July 31st 1867

Sir

I have the honor to report the state of "Affairs" in this Co as favorable. This month has been an exciting one with the Freedmen, politics, and Registration being the absorbing topic. Some of the whites, angry at the Freedmen for learning their work to attend Registering & District meetings, have attempted to charge them a large price per diem for their absence. I have in all cases informed them that they could only charge them the price they were to receive if they had worked. I am happy to state however that good feeling seems to exist between the two races, though now & then some of the most contemptable acts are charged and proven on their employers. The threats to discharge them for registering &c, is all moonshine, as labor is too scarce to be trifled with and the general complaint is, among the whites, that the Freedmen wont stay with them and comply with their agreements, but have for the most trivial cause, this is in some cases true but if both parties will live up to their contracts no trouble ensues & a great many farmers in this Co have the same hands now that they had at the close of the war  The Registration in this Co just completed, [[?]] Whites 2166, Colored 2591.