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Bureau of Refugees Freedmen & Abd Lands
Off. Asst Sub Asst Comm 1st Div 6th Sub Dist Va
Fredericksburg Va. December 31st 1867.

Brevet Brig Genl O Brown
Asst Commissioner
Richmond Va.
General,
In compliance with Circular No 6, Bureau of Refugees Freedmen & Abd Lands Head Qrs Asst Commr State of Virginia Richmond Va dated January 29th 1866, I have the honor to report that the feeling existing between the whites and Blacks is no better than heretofore.
There has been but little intemperance among the blacks of my Division, except during Christmas week, when quite a number drank to excess, there was however but one arrest made in Fredericksburg on account of drunkenness.
There has been considerable trouble of late, in the settlement of Contracts, not made or approved at this office - notwithstanding the contracts were drawn up according to the state law, and the certificate of a civil officer attached stating that the contract had been read and explained in the colored party, yet the colored

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