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BUREAU REFUGEES, FREEDMEN AND ABANDONED LANDS,
HEAD QUARTERS ASS'T SUB-ASS'T COM'R 4TH DIV. 2ND SUB-DISTRICT,
Burkesville, Nottoway Co. Va., January 31st 1868.

Bvt Brig. Gen'l O. Brown
Ass't. Comm'r Bu. R.F. and A.L. Dist. of Va.
Richmond, Virginia
(Thro' Sub District Head Quarters)

General:
In accordance with existing order from Head Quarters Assistant Commissioner State of Virginia, I have the honor to submit the following report of the Condition of Bureau Affairs in the Counties of Nottoway and Lunenburg, Va., for the month of January 1868.

Everything has been very quiet in this Sub. Division during the month and but few complaints have been received, the principal business of the Office has been in the matter of approving contracts between Farmers and Freedmen for the new year and explaining the same to the latter: The Freedmen seem to be generally employed & at about the same terms as those ruling during the year 1867; there is an increasing desire among them to rent land and cultivate the same on their own account and many have made arrangements to do so the present year.

I am not advised of any suffering among the Freedmen, the paupers, of whom the number is not large, are cared for by the civil authorities of the respective Counties and I have neither seen or heard of any