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0830

Bureau Refugees Freedmen & A.L.
Office A.S. Asst. Comr. 3d Div 2 Sub Dist. Va.
Laurencevill Va. February 29th 1868

Bvt. Brig. Genl. O. Brown
Asst Commissioner 
Richmond Va. 

General,
In obedience to Circular No. 6 Series of the Hd. Qrs. Ast. Comr. State of Va, I have the honor to report that the innate and acquired prejudice which exists between the two races continues to keep them alienated from each other in everything that tends to the moral, social and intellectual advancement of the colored race. This prejudice on the part of the Whites is continually becoming more intensified against the Freedmen in all instances where they (the freedmen) stand up for their rights & will not submit to the control  & caprice of the Whites.
 
Much injustice is perpetrated upon the Freedmen which the Bureau finds itself powerless to counteract or prevent since having been so divested and dismantled of authority. There is considerable

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transcribe a word that spans two pages in full on both pages "considerable"