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Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and A.Q. Head Dis A.F.A.Commir 4th Div. 12th Sub dist., Burkeville, VA, September 30th, 1868. 

Bvt Captain W.A.Coulter 
A.A.A. Genl Head Qr's
Ass't Comm'r Dis't of Va. 
Richmond, Virginia. 
(Thro'Head Qrs 12th Sub. District.)

Captain:
In accordance with the requirements of Circular No. 6, Series of 1866, Head Quarters 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 September 1868. The number of complaints received this month has been hardly up to the average; farmers and farm laborers are now busy securing the tobacco crop and things in general are very quiet: It is a notable fact that complaints of freedmen against freedmen are of late more numerous than of freedmen against whites; there is also much trouble among the freedmen in regard to their matrimonial relations, it appearing to be a matter of great difficulty with many of them to adapt themselves to the new order of things, and complaints of wives against husbands and vice versa are becoming of almost daily occurrence. The appears to be no change in the disposition of the freedmen to labor and they are now generally employed, while but ten complaints of idleness on their part have been received. So far as  I am informed, there is no destitution existing among the freedmen in this sect division, the paupers, of whom the number 

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