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Bureau Refugees Freedmen & Abandoned Lands
Office Asst Sub Asst Com'r 4th Div 6th Sub Dist Va
Warsaw Richmond County Virginia
Dec 31st 1867

Brv't Brig Genl O Brown
Asst Com State of Va
Richmond.

General:
I have the honor in compliance with Circular No 6. dated January 29th 1866 to make the following report for December 1867:

In my previous reports I have often mentioned in full the existing feeling between the Whites & the Black; they remain the same as per my last report upon Bureau affairs. One thing however is to be mentioned that the whites are forming what they call "Vigilance Committees" in each magisterial district throughout this Division the purport of these organizations are said to be to defeat the constitution formed by the State Constitutional Convention now in session. 

These organizations are producing great alarm in the minds of the White Unionists and the negroes. 

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