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180-U-3-1868 Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, Head Quarters 11th Sub-District of Virginia Farmville, VA. October 1st 1868 Bvt Brig Gen. O Brown Asst Commr. District of Va Bur R F and A. L. Richmond Va General, In compliance with Cir No 1" Series 1866 Hd Qrs Asst Commr District of Va, I have the honor to report that the Agents of the Four Divisions of 11" Sub District Va State there are no Freedmen in their several Divions unemployed by reason of inability to procure work. As I have before remarked in this connection there is work enough for all, but the effort being so generally made to dismiss laborers employed for the year shows clearly that employers are desirous to relieve themselves from the responsibility of feeding and paying employes. The scale of remuneration is low, but the mode of payment is more injurious to freedmen. White employers avoid paying a cent more than they can help, the freedmen as a mass are far from striving to render their services indispensable and very few make the judicious calculation or provision for the future, so that each returning year finds them in the same limited circumstances. I am General Very respectfully Your Obt Servt Thos P Jackson Sub Asst Commr 11" Sub District VA Bu R F and AL.