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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