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0720
Bureau R F. & A. Lands,
4th Div. 1st Sub. Dist. Va.
Jerusalem, Feb. 28th 1868.

Bvt. Brig. Gen. O. Brown.
Asst. Comr.

General: I have the honor (in accordance with cir No. 6 Series 1866) to report that the condition of "Bureau Affairs," so far as I have been able to judge, is healthy, though not so prosperous as I would wish. Much might be done to improve and elevate the moral standing of the freedmen: I am now engaged in the work by setting them a good example, and otherwise illustrating the good that will flow from this moral elevation. I am sorry to hear of much looseness in their ideas of the marriage relation: Some two or three cases of that kind, have come before me. I have shown them that God will not wink at such conduct, and after due Counsel and admonition trust, have succeeded in restoring harmony. There is a great want of schools here (I am deeply interested in the subject) one difficulty is, the whites are opposed to the freedmen being educated: They consider them only "fit for slaves", and will not sell them lots to build school houses upon. I have in two communities got the parents to look around, and see how much money they can get towards

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