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Bureau Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands,
Office Asst. Sub-Asst. Commissioner, First Division Third Sub-District of Virginia,
Richmond, Va., April 30th, 1868.

Lieut. Paul R. Hambrick
Sub-Asst Com'r. 3rd Sub-Dist. Va.

Lieut:-
In compliance with the provisions of Circular No. 6, dated Bureau R.F. and A.L. Head Quarters, Asst Com'r. State of Va. Richmond Virginia January 30th 1866, I have the honor to submit herewith the following report.

Since my report for March the freedpeople of this Division have been gradually recovering from the embarrassing circumstances of a winters suffering. At this time there are no able-bodied freedmen for whom employment cannot be furnished and the destitution among the helpless and cumbersome is fast receding. The destitution that now exists is exclusively confined to Richmond and suburbs. In the county of Henrico over some portions of which I have traversed since the 20th, instant the freedmen are faithfully laboring in cultivating the soil. The growing crops of grain

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