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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., December 31st, 1867.

Bvt Brig Gen'l O. Brown
Ass't Comm'r Dist of Virginia

General:
Pursuant to circular No. 6, series of 1866 Headquarters Ass't Com'r State of Virginia, I have the honor to report that no perceptible change has taken place in the state of feeling existing between the whites and freedmen in this county since my report of November 20th 1867.

No cases of violence against the colored people have been brought to my notice during the month, and I have yet to learn the first instance of discharge of freedmen from employment on account of voting their chosen ticket.  This latter subject I have made one of especial inquiry and investigation and although no such discharges have taken place, it must not be understood, as indicative of any liberality or concession on the part of the whites toward the freedmen, relative to the right