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Bureau R.F & A.L.
Hd Qrs. 4th Div 5 Sub. Dist Va.
Eastville Va. Nov. 25, 1868

B'v't Brig Genl. O. Brown
Asst. Comr. Dist. Va.

Sir

Pursuant to Cir. No. 6, S. 1866 Hd Qrs. Asst Comr, Dist of Va. I have the honor to report on the "condition of Bureau Affairs" 

The condition of the freedmen and their relations to the white population has not materially changed since my last report.

In every part of the Division they are strugling, though in weekness, to erect schoolhouses, and to do what they can to educate and improve their race.  If not as successful in their efforts as might be desired, they are earnest and active.  A deficiency of means & time, and a lack of experience, are the causes of much delay and embarrisment in every enterprise they undertake, yet they strugle on and meet with considerable success.

Many of the freedmen are required to leave the houses they have been occupying, and which they were, by the contracts, to occupy longer.  But unfortunately for them the contracts are only verbal, and they are informed by the lawyers that a verbal contract is good only for one year.  And