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Bureau Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands,
Head Quarters, 8th Sub. District of Virginia.
WYTHEVILLE, VA., July 31st 1868.

Brt. Brig. General. O. Brown.
Asst. Commissioner,
Richmond V'a

General 
I have the honor to report Bureau affairs in general for the month ending July 31st 1868 as follows.
The freedmen are poor and dependent, working well where well paid and well used but for very low wages, bearly sufficient to feed and clothe them. All who are able to labor support themselves and in supporting those who from age and infirmity are unable to labor. Applications for aid either to the Bureau or Overseers of the Poor are very rare. 
The demand for labor is fully equal to the supply but there are no indications of the Prices being remunerative. The men all labor with the expectations and generally fear that they shall be discharged and driven from their employers premises wherever they vote contrary to his demands. This curse 

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