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0208

L.B.316. Vol. 1st/67 & 8. 

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

Lieut. Paul R. Hambrick
Sub-Asst. Com'r. 3d Sub-Dist. Va.
 
Lieut:-
In compliance with instructions contained in Circular No. 6, dated Bureau R.F. and A.L. Head Quarters Assistant Commissioner State of Virginia Richmond, Va, January 29th 1866, I have the honor to make the following report. 

In Richmond the colored laboring people have little to encourage them at this time, small wages and a want of steady employment (which has already been brought to your notice) furnish but a small renumeration wherewith to provide for themselves. 

Although the utmost vigilance has been used in the distribution of rations, the result of our labor in this direction has not produced the favorable change anticipated; hundreds of families in Richmond both white and colored are to day without the means wherewith to purchase the plainest articles of sustenance.