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0378
L.B. 180. Vol.2.
Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands,
Headquarters, Superintendent Fifth District, VA.
Fort Monroe, Va. Sept 30 1866
Bvt Brig Gen O Brown
A.A.A.G.

General:
In accordance with Circular No 1 C S. dated Jan 1st 1866, from your office. I have the honor to report by submitting reports received from Asst Supts relative to the number of unemployed freedmen in their respective sub-districts.
The question of labor is in my District a serious one; there is not enough in the present supply of capital, condition of public feeling, and methods of cultivating to nearly absorb the supply of it.
Agriculture is, in the main, suspended till next Spring; wood cutting on land and oystering on the various beds in this vicinity, are to be the chief occupations until March or April 1867.
There are very hard times in store for the women children and feeble generally where crops have failed [[strikethrough]] from [[/strikethrough]] to when no new rations will