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BRF and A Lands
Hd Qrs 2d Div 1 S Dist Va
Wise Farm Va Nov 30th 1868
Bvt Brig Genl O Brown
Asst Com Dist of Va
Richmond Va
General
I have the honor to report pursuant to Cir No 6 Series 1866 Hd Qrs Asst Com Dist Va That the general condition of Bureau Affairs in this Division of the 1 S Dist Va is good. The Freedmen have as a general rule been employed during the past month and destitution does not exist to any great extent among them. The Tenants on the Wise Farm do not pay up their Rent, stating that owing to the hard times last year, they were in debt at the beginning of the present year, and that they will be left without the means to carry them through the Winter should they now be compelled to give the Govt their crop for Rent They especially fear suffering now that the discontinuance of the Bureau on the 31 Dec 1868 is a settled fact, or supposed to be so. There is no school in the division

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