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L.B.V.3. 121/495 Bureau R. F. and A. L. Hd Qs 5th Sub Dist Va Fort Monroe Va Sept 2nd Bvt. Brig. Genl O Brown; Asst Comr.; General: I have the honor to report in accordance with Circular No. 1 Series of 1866, from your office, that the number of unemployed freedmen in this Sub District is steadily lessening. In York and Elizabeth City counties there is still a surplus of people; in no other counties of my subdistrict have I any overpopulation to report. But few freedmen are employed as they should be: the large majority are not steadily at work; this is due partly to want of constant demand for labor and partly to indisposition on the part of
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