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Bureau of R.F. & A.L. Hd. Qurs. Asst. Sub Asst. Com'r
3rd Division, 8th Sub District, Virginia
Christiansburg, Montgomery County Va.
August 25th 1867

Capt. Garrick Mallery USA
A.A.A. Genl.

Captain- I have the honor to make the following report of Bureau affairs in this division comprising the Counties of Montgomery, Pulaski and Giles for the past month.

The Freedmen have been in the cultivation and ingathering of the crop - and are improving gradually in their circumstances and condition. The whites, except in a few instances, pay them promptly and treat them kindly; and but little trouble has been experienced, even in cases where parties have failed to comply with their contract, in obtaining a satisfactory settlement, when referred to these Head Quarters.