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Bureau R.F.&A.L
Office of A.S.A. Com'r. 3rd Div. 6th Sub-Dist. Va.
Tappahannock, Essex Co. Va. April 30. 1868.

Bvt. Brig. Genl. O. Brown.
Asst. Com'r. Dist. of Va.

General,
I have to honor to forward through Hd. Qrs. 6th Sub-Dist. Va. the following report in compliance with Circular No. 6, dated Hd. Qrs. Asst. Com'r. Richmond Va. January 29 1866.

There is nothing of interest to embrace in this report from this Division this month; the feeling of the whites towards the Freedmen remains the same. The whites are striving in every way possible to dissuade the Colored people from voting for the Constitution and the language of their public speakers would not only tend to dissuade them from voting for it, were they not the most rational of the two races at present, but would encourage a very bitter prejudice feeling on the part of the colored towards the whites; a "Conservative" public