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L.B. V.2, 713/277. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and A. Lands, Head Quarters 5th Sub-Dist, Va. Fort Monroe, Va., May 31st 1867. Bvt. Brig. Genl. O. Brown, Asst. Commr. Va., Richmond, Va. General: In accordance with Circular No. 1, Series of 1866, from your office, I have the honor to report that the able bodied freedmen in my Sub-District are very generally employed, though not on terms generally satisfactory, or calculated to encourage the employee; neither is the employment permanent - this being a busy season. Further, the large majority are farming, mostly on shares; numbers are working by the day; very many tilling a few acres and getting odd jobs in order to support them day by day. There is not enough money in this section to pay the laborers in it; this results (over
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