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Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen &c
Fayetteville, N. C.
December 10^th 1866

Bvt. Brig. Genl.
Allan Rutherford
Sup. Southern District
Wilmington, N. C.

Sir
I would Respectfully represent that at the December term of the County Court for this (Cumberland Co.) held at this place the last [[week ?]], in a case of the State against 
J. P. Barnes & Elizabeth Chance (whites) for larceny, Thomas McDaniel & Harrison Mayner, two respectable colored citizens, were denied the right to testify for the defendants, by the Court - it being against the laws of North Carolina for colored persons to testify in cases when whites are parties - Thus setting aside the provisions of civil rights Bill entirely.

I had the Counsel for the defendants