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BUREAU OF REFUGEES, FREEDMEN AND ABANDONED LANDS,
Head Quarters Assistant Sub-Assistant Commissioner,
4th DIVISION-FRANKLIN COUNTY ---,
7th SUB-DISTRICT, STATE OF VIRGINIA,
Rocky-Mount, Va., October 31st, 1867.

Brot. Brig. Genl. O. Brown,
Assistant Commissioner, 

General:

In compliance with Circular no. l, Series 1866, Hd. 26 asst. Comm. State of Va., I have the honor to report, that the feeling existing between the Whites and Freedmen in my Division has not during the past month been marked by anything more serious than the prevalent jealous dissatisfaction on the one side, and the distrust on the other.

At the third session of the Board of Registration which terminated here on the 12th of the month, there were registered three more colored persons, which made the total votes of that class 1091 at the election on the 22nd, but 911 of this number voted (900 for, and 11 against a convention); leaving 180, who from some cause unknown did not vote at all. Many whites, and perhaps as many as twenty freedmen who were not registered presented themselves at the polls, thinking that they could there and then both register and vote, and some, I understand, who had joined the Union [[?]] believed that by so doing they had been properly registered, and this lost their vote, a very [[?]] also despite of every possible precaution which had been taken to properly inform them, by presenting themselves elsewhere than at the [[?]] at which 

Transcription Notes:
Reopened- last paragraph, after 'union' is league?