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Bureau of Refugees Freedmen and Abandoned Lands
Hd Qrs Asst Supt 8th Dist Va
Marion Va July 25th 1866

Bvt. Brig. Genl. O. Brown
A.A.A. Genl. for B.R.F. and A.L.
Department of Virginia

Genl,


I have the honor make the following report relative to the administration of civil justice in my Sub-District. The County Court of Smyth County on the 22nd day of June 1866 made an appropriation for the relief of destitute white citizens of the county, but neglected to appropriate any thing for the relief of destitute colored citizens of the same county. An estimate of the necessary expenses for both white and black was made by the Overseers of the Poor, but the Co Court have neglected or declined to provide for the destitute and suffering blacks. 

The County Court of the above named county have also in many cases given an order binding as an apprentice colored children without the knowledge

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