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Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands,
Office 4th Division, 9th Sub-District of Virginia,
343, 2,V,68,
Staunton, Va, November 30 1868.

General O. Brown
Assistant Commissioner
Richmond Va.

General:
In compliance with Circular No VI, dated Head Quarters, Asst Commissioner Richmond Va Jan'y 20, 1866 - I have the honor to submit the following Report of Bureau Affairs in 4th Division, (comprising Highland and Augusta Counties) 9th Sub District Virginia, viz:
Nothing has transpired during the present month calculated in any way to change the tenor of my last report. - The main difficulties under which the freedmen labor are just and proper settlement of their, accounts with their employers, yet, through the aid and instrumentality, of this office many complaints of this character have been fairly adjusted. On, account of this disposition, manifested toward the colored population even while the latter were under the protection of the Bureau, I fear that its withdrawal at this time