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Bureau Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands
Headquarters 10th Sub-District of Virginia
Alexandria, Va, February 3rd 1868

Bat. Brig. Gen. O.Brown
Bureau R.F. and A.Lands
Richmond, Va

Genl:
In compliance with cir No6. Head-Quarters Asst. Comm. Disttrict of Virginia January 29th 1866. I have the honor to report that the condition of Bureau affairs in Alexandria Co is fair; There are no able bodied freedmen who desire work, for when employment cannot be found. the demand for servant being steady, the freedpeople however [[?]] a distaste for contracting to work for the year. preferring to work by the month. from moth to month leaving their situations whenever the please, thus making labor very uncertain, a thing ofitself very disasterous to those engaged in agricultural pursuits. The state of feeling between the whites and the freedmen is apparently good no case of injustice coming to my notice during the past month. Destitution and suffering is still prevalent among the aged and inferior, and in some cases of sickness and of large families there is no doubt but that the aid extended to this class of persons has been the means of presenting and alieviating a