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Bureau R. F and A Lands.
Office 1st Div 7th Sub Dist
Lynchburg Aug 31st 67

Brig General O Brown,
Ass Commissioner State of Virginia

General.
In compliance with the requirements of Circular No. 6. Series of 1866, I have the honor to report that affairs pertaining to the Bureau are progressing as favorable as can be expected. There is a disposition on the part of many people to quarrel with the freedmen, with whom they are croping in shares and run them of. A note directing them to receive the discharged back and permit them to gather their crop usually settles the difaculty

Seasonable weather has much improved the prospects for the coming corn and tobacco crop.

The schools have not yet opened. the desire for education on the part of the freed people is in no wise flagging. I have organized one Temperance Society in this city and taken the preliminary steps to do so in the rural districts. Owing to the absence of the gentleman who has the records of the society I am unable to furnish the exact data in relation to it. It has met with great encouragement in town. I regret to report that throughout the county the colored people appear too much wedded to their dram to take much interest in the cause of Temperance. I have had no application for rations of Moment, during the month. I fear however, during this winter that there will be much suffering owing to the indisposition of the part of Colored people.

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