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Bureau R.F. and A.L
Hd Qrs. 2nd Div 11th Sub Dist Va.
Maysville Va. June 30th 1868

Brig Genl. O. Brown.
Assistant Commissioner.
Richmond Va.
(Thro 11th Sub Dist Hd Qrs)

General.
In compliance with Circular No 6. from Head Quarters Assistant Commissioner Va. dated Richmond Va. Jany 29th 1866. I have the honor to report that the Freedmen of this Division are acting very well, and are with a few exceptions, all at work, and fullfill the obligations into which they enter where they receive just compensation for their labor. There are a great many of the Freedpeople in very destitute circumstances as a great majority of them work on shares of crops, and will be unable to derive means therefrom until the crops mature. In consequence there has
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