Registered Reports of Operations and Conditions
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content: Records of the Assistant Commissioner for the State of Texas Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1869
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content: Records of the Assistant Commissioner for the State of Texas Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1869 / Series 7: Reports
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content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
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content: NMAAHC.FB.M821, Subseries 7.1
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content: Archival materials
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content: The registered reports of operations and conditions, December 1866–December 1868, are arranged chronologically by month and thereunder as entered in the registers of letters received. Within this series the few unregistered reports are filed last under the particular month to which they pertain. All but one of the reports filed under December 1866 are annual and cover the previous year's events. The reports are exclusively narrative until July 1867 when a printed form first came into use. Within a few months the form reports superseded the narrative reports, although the informational content remained similar. The content of the reports was specified in a circular letter issued by the Assistant Commissioner on December 31, 1866. Information was requested from subassistant commissioners relative to matters in their particular areas, including civil and criminal cases involving freedmen; local white attitudes toward freedmen and their education; the progress of education generally; a statement of monthly business transacted, including office hours and days absent from office; the number of troops present and the need for them; operations of State laws as applied to freedmen; the status of freedmen as agricultural workers; and the difficulties encountered in carrying out Bureau functions.