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Head of Bureau Dist. of Charleston
Charleston S.C.
Feb 1st 1867.
Bt. Maj. Gen. K. K. Scott.  Asst. Com.
General,
I making my report for the month of January 1867 I have the honor to request the attention of the Asst. Commissioner to the crop injustice with which the Freedpeople of this City & District are treated under the name of Civil law.
The case of John Gilliard S's J Laeportas, forwarded to our Hd. qrs. for instructions, is a specimen of the justice(!) dealt out to Freedmen in S.C.
X In Colleton, the most utter disregard to every thing like Justice, fairness or common honesty, is manifested by the whites in their intercourse with with the Freedpeople; more cold blooded, savage atrocities could not be  perpetrated by Comanche Indians.
A few days since a Freedman was arrested by a constable in Beaufort District charged with horse stealing & other misdemeanors, & [[?]] brought to Walterbow Jail Colleton Dist a distance of thirty five miles with the end of a chain fastened around his neck, the other