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072 Bureau of Refugees, Freedman and Abandoned Lands, Head Quarters 2nd Sub-District, Virginia. Petersburg, Va., January 7th 1868. Bvt Brig Gen'l O. Brown Asst Comm'r Bu RF &c Richmond Va General In accordance with existing orders I the honor to report that there are no able-bodied freedmen, within my knowledge, in this Sub-Dist. who are unable to find employment.- In this city there are large numbers out of employment, by reason of the stoppage of the factories and other causes, who could obtain employment in the country at small wages - yet sufficient to live upon - but who prefer to remain in the city, barely sustaining life, either by begging or by getting an odd job of work now and then; some doing so because they are not a accustomed to farm labor, and others because they do not consider the wages offered in the country large enough. Very Respty Your Obt Servt. J. R. Stone Agent Bureau R.F. and A.L.