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Bureau Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands,
Hd. Qrs. Ass't. Sub-Ass't. Comm'r. 4th Div. 2nd Sub-District,
Burkeville, Va., July 31st 1867.

Bt. Major G. Mallery,
A.A. Adj't Gen'l,
In compliance with existing orders, I have the honor to submit the following report of the condition of Bureau Affairs in the Counties of Nottoway and Lunenburg County Va, for and during the month ending July 31st, 1867.
The Freedmen are industrious and considering their moderate means are thriving. A large number of them are working small tracts of land for themselves. But the majority of them are laboring for a share of the crops made by them.
They attach more importance to the marriage relation than family, and are commencing to exhibit an interest in the temperance cause, a Temperance Society now being in process of organizing in this Co,
It is to be regretted that a large number of the Freedmen are addicted to intemperance which the organization of such societies may to a certain extent remedy.