Letters Sent Relating to Complaints — Vermilionville (Agent and Assistant Subassistant Commissioner)

Source catalog description

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The single volume of letters sent relating to complaints, May–October 1866 (489), is arranged chronologically. The volume also contains a register of contracts approved (1866); trimonthly reports (April 1866–April 1868); a register of indigent and helpless freedmen (January–August 1867); a register of indigent and destitute whites and freed people, Parish Lafayette (1868); a register of contracts approved (1867); a register of complaints (February–July 1866); a register of "Blanks Sold" (1866–67); a register of soldiers' discharges received and forwarded (1866–67); a register of "Freedchildren" apprenticed (No Date); a list of "Tuition Tickets" (September–December 1866), arranged chronologically; and an "Official Roster" (January 1, 1868).

Collection

Records of the Field Offices for the State of Louisiana, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1863–1872

Archival grouping

Records of the Field Offices for the State of Louisiana, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1863–1872 / Series 5: Subordinate Field Offices / 5.69: Vermilionville (Agent and Assistant Subassistant Commissioner)

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