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Bureau Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands,
HEADQUARTERS 10th SUB-DISTRICT OF VIRGINIA.
Alexandria, Va., May 2nd 1868.

Capt. W. A. Coulter
A.A.A.G. Bureau R.F. & A. Lands, 
Richmond, Virginia

Captain: 

In compliance with Circular No 6. from Head Quarters Asst. Com'r: District of Virginia, January 29th 1866: I have the honor to submit the following report of the condition of Bureau affairs in Alexandria Co. Va 

There have been a great deal of complaint during the month of April 1868. both on the part of the colored people and the whites; most of the complaints of the freedpeople have been equitably settled; The complaints of the whites have been mostly of imposition and deceit, in laboring hands, quite a number of freedpeople after being supplied by the bureau during the winter and having been secured homes during the spring have taken advantage of the opportunities offerred and getting their fares paid to portions of the country have made a pleasure trip of it, leaving the parties who furnished them with money for the trip in the lurch, 

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