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Bureau R.F. & A. Lands
4th Div. 1st Sub. Dist. Va
Jerusalem, March 31st, 1868

Bvt. Brig. Genl, Q. Brown
Asst. Commissioner:

General, 
I have the honor (in accordance with Circular No. 6, Series 1866) to submit the following Report on the condition of "Bureau affairs". In the first place permit me to say that very little attention seems to have been given to the improving and elevating the moral standing of the freedman by my predecessors. I find many of them destitute of that teaching which would necessarily have placed their feet in the path of virtue, and led them on to a surer and firmer highway. They have been suffered to spend their small earnings at the whiskey shops, without a word of remonstrance and now, many are addicted to the habit of intemperance. We are taking steps, which we trust will ere long tend to improve their condition in this respect, as a lively interest seems to be increasing. There is a great want of schools, and that want is painful, from the fact, that the whites, especially the "poor whites", are opposed to the freedman being educated, and for that reason all refuse to sell them lots on which to erect schoolhouses. They take a great interest in the subject of education, and the greater portion are anxious to have schools in all parts of the County: And I trust the time is near at hand when the Bureau will be enabled

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