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Bureau of R.F & A.L. Hd.Qrs. Asst. Sub Asst. Commissioner
3rd & 4th Divisions, 8th Sub Dist. Va. Christiansburg Mont'y Co. Va.
March 31st 1868.

Bvt. Capt. Will A Coulter USA
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Captain: I have the honor to make the following report of Bureau affairs in the counties of Montgomery, Pulaski, Giles, Roanoke, Craig and Floyd, (3rd & 4th Divisions, 8th Sub Dist. Va.) for the month ending March 31st 1868. The Freedmen have very generally been engaged in their Spring work - numbers of them working on their old contracts - others employed by the month. Few if any of the whites have been willing to enter into new agreements with them for a period longer than two months, while in many cases they employ them by the day. Their object no doubt is to control as far as possible, their vote at the coming election - either by expulsions from their service, if they do not vote to suit them, or through liberal offers of steady employment and prompt pay, in cases where they comply with the wishes of their Employers. The Freedmen however have been instructed in their rights and privelages [[privileges]] under the law, and that the Government will protect them in these rights.