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[[preprinted]] Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen & Abandoned Lands, Office of Sub-Division of Company Shops, State of North Carolina, Company Shops, N.C. ^[[October 27]], 186^[[8]]. [[/preprinted]] Colonel Referring to my letter of the 21st and your instructions of the 22nd inst. I have the honor to report, that having ascertained that Asa Isley is a lawful Justice of the Peace, I wrote to him on receipt of your instructions requesting that he review his actions in this Case and inviting his attention to the fact that a charge of Larceny cannot be sustained etc. He has however yesterday committed Joseph Harvey to Jail on that charge. I immediately saw W. A. Smith Esq. President of the N.C.R.R. who requested me to let Harvey be carried to jail, and that he them would bail him