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Office of Asst Sub Asst Com
Bureau R. F. and A. L. 
2nd Div of the 1st Sub Dist
District of Va September 30th 1867 

Brvt Brig Gen. O. Brown 
Assistant Commissioner
District of Va

Sir

In compliance with Cir No 6 series 1866 I have the honor to report the general condition of affairs for this division as follows.
 
A great deal of sickness has prevailed during the past month, sickness incident to the climate and location of a malarial type, scarcely a family in the section but what have suffered more or less. No sickness of a contagious character has been reported

The weather having proved favorable the freedmen have found plenty of employment, and at very reasonable prices, good hands get 75 cts per day.

Very few applications have been made 

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