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HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF NORTH CAROLINA,
Raleigh, North Carolina, December 26th, 1865.

GENERAL ORDERS,}
No. 179.       }

I. *  *  Before a Military Commission, convened at Salisbury, North Carolina, October 31st, 1865, pursuant to Special Orders, No. 50, dated Headquarters District of West North Carolina, Salisbury, N. C., October 28th, 1865, and of which Lt. Col. E W. PENNY, 130th Ind. Inf. is President, was arrigned and tried:

Samuel W. Robinson, citizen, of Mecklenburg County, N. C.
CHARGE
Larceny.
Specification--"In this, that he, Samuel W. Robinson, citizen, did feloniously abstract, and take away, two single setts Harness, the property of the United States, and for which Capt. C. W. Leffingwell was responsible, said Harness being of great value, to-wit: Twenty-five Dollars, and he, the said Samuel W. Robinson, citizen, did sell the said Harness for a valuable consideration.  All this on or about the 5th day of October, 1865, at the corral near Charlotte, North Carolina."
To which charge and specification the prisoner pleaded as follows:
Of the Specification of the Charge, "Not Guilty."
Of the Charge, "Not Guilty."
FINDING.
The Commission having maturely considered the evidence adduced, does find the prisoner, Samuel W. Robinson, citizen, of Charlotte, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, as follows:
Of the Specification of the Charge, "Not Guilty."
Of the Charge, "Not Guilty."
And the Commission does therefore fully acquit the said Samuel W. Robinson, citizen, of every part of the aforesaid charge.