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184 185 this year rent promptly, and were industrious, to remain for another year. This renders the question soluble. the indigent and helpless women and children will be removed to the Hospital at this place, and in a few years it is hoped that many Freedmen will be persuaded to remove from this thickly populated neighborhood where vice and immorality are so rampant, - to other places where the moral standard of the Freedmen will be elevated. Regarding Freedmen in Newtown "being threatened with expulsion seizure of crops &c" This has only been done in exceptional cases where Freedmen have openly boasted that they would pay no rent, and by idleness and constantly throwing their race in disrepute. Sg'd F. J. Massey 1st Lieut 5" Regt V.R.C. Asst Supt York & James City Co's Massey F. J. Lieut &c Bureau RF & AL H'd Qrs Asst Com'r D of P Richmond Va Dec 20/66 Respectfully returned to Maj Genl O. O. Howard Com'r inviting attention to endorsement of Lieut F. J. Massey Asst Supt. Sg'd J. M. Schofield Bvt Maj Genl & Asst Com'r Official O Brown A.A.A.G. The first endorsement was not recorded in this Book L.R. H. 807. 4. V. 66. White Geo. Q. Bvt Maj &c Rec'd back Dec 20/66 Chf H'd Qrs Office Dept of the Poto'c Richmond Va Dec 1966 Respectfully returned to Bvt Brig Genl O. Brown A.A.A.G. with the information that the articles can be furnished by this Dept on receipt of the proper orders. Sg'd A. P. Blunt Bvt Brig Genl C.Q.M. Dept of the Poto'c Bureau RF & AL H'd Qrs Asst Com'r D of P Richmond Va Dec 20/66 Respectfully returned to Bvt Maj Geo. Q. White Chf Qr M & F.A. &c By order of Bvt Maj Genl Schofield Asst Comr O Brown AAAG The first endorsement was not recorded in this Book Snowden G. B. L.R. S. 337. 4th. V. 66. Rec'd back Dec 20th66 Bureau RF & AL Office Asst Supt Richmond Va Dec 20th/66 Respectfully returned to Capt J. A. Bates Supt 3d. Dist Va with the information that enquiries have been made and notices read in the different Churches, but no trace can be had of the within named party. Sg'd Benj. C. Cook Bvt Capt & Asst Supt Cook, B. C. Bvt Capt Bureau RF & AL H'd Qrs Asst Com'r D of P Richmond Va Dec 20th/66 REspectfully returned to Mr G. B. Snowden Augusta Ga inviting attention to endorsement of Bvt Capt B. C. Cook Asst Supt. By order of Bvt Maj Genl Schofield Asst Com'r O Brown A.A.A.G. The first endorsement was not recorded in this Book Armstrong S. C. Supt L.R. A. 701. 4th. V. 66. Bureau RF & AL H'd Qrs Asst Com'r D of P Richmond Va Dec 20/66 Respectfully returned to Genl S. C. Armstrong Supt &c for report whether these persons come under the provisions of Circular No. 2. from Bureau Head Qrs By order of Bvt Maj Genl Schofield Asst Com'r O Brown A.A.A.G. Armstrong S. C. Supt 164 L.R. A. 679. 4th. V. 66. Rec'd back Dec 20/66 Bureau RF & AL H'd Qrs Supt 5th. Dist. Va Fort Monroe Va Dec 18th/66 Respectfully returned to the Asst Com'r. The houses will no longer be under the jurisdiction of the Bureau the lands having been restored. To tear down and remove these within hovels would not be worth
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