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Bureau Refugees, Freedmen & Abandoned Lands.
Head Quarters 1st Div 1st Sub-District, Va. 
Norfolk, Va. June 30th 1868. 

Bvt. Brig: Genl. O. Brown, 
Asst Com. B.R.F. and A.L. Dist of Va. 
Richmond, Va. 

General, 
I have the honor to report pursuant to Cir No 6 Series 1866 from Hd Qrs Asst Com Dist of Va, that there has been but little change in the condition of Bureau affairs since my last Report of May 31, 1868. The issue of Rations has been further decreased from 3921 1/2 in May to 3600 in June and will admit of considerable diminution also during the coming month. The state of feeling between Blacks and the great majority of the Whites still continues, from political causes, to be quite unsatisfactory, throughout the Division and in some portions quite bitter. The measures lately taken by Congress for the continuance of the Bureau are hailed by the Freedpeople with delight, as they regard its continuance as their sole pledge of fair and just treatment in the reconstruction of the State and their chief protection in the free exercise of the right of ballot in the elections preliminary thereto. The Schools supported by the various benevolent Societies, after very prosperous Sessions, have all closed, with the prospect of reopening in the fall. The eight private Schools in this Division now