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Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, 
Office 4th Division, 9th Sub District Virginia.
Staunton, Va., Aug 31st 1868

Bvt Brig Gen. O Brown,
Asst. Com'r
B of R. F. & A. L
Richmond Va

General
In compliance with instructions contained in Circ No VI. from H.Q. Asst Comm'r &c dated Richmond Jany 29th 1866. I have the honor to submit the following "Report" showing the condition of "Freedmens affairs" at this date in the above named division. 

Nothing has occurred during the "month" which is calculated to change the opinions hitherto expressed, as to the capacity of the colored race, in the matter of becoming a thrifty self-supporting population - Occasionally

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