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Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands,
Office 4th Division, 9th Sub-District, Virginia
Staunton, Va., Jan 31 1868

Brig Genl. O. Brown
Asst Comr. District of Va
Richmond (Through Hd Qrs 9th Sub Dist Va.)

General
In compliance with Circular Order No. 6. of 1866, B.R.F. & A.L. I have the honor to submit the following report on condition of Bureau affairs in the 4th Div. 9th Sub Dist. Va. which includes the counties of Augusta and Highland

Numerous calls are daily made at this office by Freedpeople, to obtain settlement of disputed accounts as to labor, or to ask aid to compel payment of wages, acknowledged to be due. I still in a majority of these cases, a trivial money balance to the credit of the laborer, or a claim against him for over payment in produce or goods, which it is difficult to refute, by reason of his having no counter account of his own to show

Few contracts for labor by the year are being made at this office, partly owing to unwillingness of employers to come to the Bureau, and partly of indisposition of laborers to make contracts for the year