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Office of R.F. &. A.L. "Bureau
Greensboro NC
Oct 31" 1865

Charges and Specification
Against
John Galloway Capt of Rockingham Police

Charge
Abusing and causing Colord persons to be whiped By his official Authority

Specification
1st That the Said John Galloway Citizen of Rockingham County State of North Carolina Did order as a captain of the County Police for the county of Rockingham North Carolina
Peter Colord Man tied up and whiped with A Leather Strap Seventy five Lashes on his Bare Back"

Pleads Guilty of Ordering it done by" his official Authority

[signature] William C Mills" [[/signature]]
Capt and Asst Supt Freedman
for Sub Dist of Greensboro