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Bureau Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands,
Office [[strikethrough]] of Agent [[/strikethrough]] A.S.A.C. First Division, Third Sub-District of Virginia,  Richmond, Va. January 31st 1868.

Lieut. Paul R. Hambrick
Sub. Asst. Com'r. 3rd Sub-Dist. Va.

Lieut:
In compliance with provisions of Circular No. 6, dated Head Quarters Assistant Commissioner State of Virginia Richmond, Va, January 29th 1866, I have the honor to make the following report.

The dawn of the new year finds the freedpeople of this Division less advanced toward that state of self dependence and prosperity than was hoped for and anticipated by all friends of the Bureau. The cause of this to be regretted state of affairs is not the work of the colored race were they the authors of their own suffering we might have just cause to complain and feel disheartened in the work before us. It has been brought about through a policy inaugurated by 

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