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BUREAU REFUGEES, FREEDMEN AND ABANDONED LANDS,
HEAD QUARTERS ASS'T SUB-ASS'T COM'R 4TH DIV. 2ND SUB-DISTRICT,
Burkeville, Nottaway Co. Va., March 31st, 1868.

Bvt. Capt. W.A. Coulter
A.A.A.G Head Qr's Ass't Comm'r Bu. R.F. and A.L.
District of Virginia.

Captain:
In accordance with existing instructions from Head Quarters Assistant Commissioner, State of Virginia, I have the honor to submit the following report of the condition of Bureau Affairs in the Counties of Nottaway and Lunenburg, Va., for the month of March 1868.

Owing to the opening of Spring and the consequent necessity of strict attention to farm duties, but few complaints have been received during the month, the freedmen are generally at mark and no complaints of their idleness have been made: There is more disposition shown this year, both by employers and employees, to hire for money wages and many freedmen are so employed, tho' the plan of working for a share of the crop is still adhered to in most cases.

There is, so far as I am informed, no destitution existing among the freedmen in this Sub-Division, the paupers, of whom the number is small, are cared for by the proper Civil Officers of the respective Counties and I have neither seen or heard of any vagrants.

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