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Bureau Refugees Freedmen & AL
Office Asst Sub Asst Comr
Halifax CH Halifax Co Va
Sept 30th 1867

Maj Gen O Brown
Asst Comr State of Virginia

General 
in Compliance with Circular No"6" Hd Qrs Asst Commissioner State of Virginia, I have the honor to submit the following report. Bureau affairs are moving on quietly and the Freedmen are as a class diligently working, Securing the Crops. 

There is not as much neglect of work to attend public meetings called among themselves as there was at the time I rendered my last report. The Freedmen are learning that they cannot afford to lose so much time, and are beginning to find out that but little can be learned from those of their own class who raised among them with no better opportunities than themselves have taken upon themselves to instruct them in matters of which they are alike ignorant. If such men as Lindsey and Kenedy from Richmond could go through the Country Speaking they would do great good and much useful information would be gained from them by all There will be a full vote of the Freedmen cast in this County at the approaching election. No impediment will be placed in their way of so doing by any Class. The employers are seeming desirous that they should do so
Many Freedmen are already making Contracts

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