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BUREAU REFUGEES, FREEDMEN AND ABANDONED LANDS,
HEAD QUARTERS ASS'T SUB-ASS'T COM'R 4TH DIV. 2ND. SUB-DISTRICT, 
Burkeville, Nottoway Co. Va., June 30th 1868. 

B'v't Capt. W.A. Coulter
A.A.A.G Head Q'rs Ass't Comm'r Dist. of V'a,
Richmond, Virginia. 
(Thro' Head Q'rs 2d Sub-District.) 

Captain: 
In accordance with the provisions of Circular No 6, Series of 1866, Head Q'rs Assistant Commissioner State of Virginia, I have the honor to submit the following report of the condition of Bureau Affairs in the County of Nottoway, Virginia, for the month of June 1868. 

Consequent upon the continued necessity for strict attention to farm duties, but few complaints have been received during the month, other business being obliged to give way to the paramount and all important one of making a subsistence. No complaints have been made of idleness on the part of the freedmen, who are fully employed and, as a general thing, appear to realize the necessity of faithful labor on their part to obtain the means of support for themselves and families. 

Complaints are constantly being made by the white people of the existence of armed organizations among the freedmen, but, upon investigation, they have proved to be without foundation in every instance, generally being based upon the assemblages of the freedmen of a political character to which, perhaps, some few may have brought their guns, for the purpose of hunting on the way, which practice