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be adopted by the Bureau under the power granted by the act of Congress creating it before any adjudication between any parties can be had before the Bureau.
The rules and regulations adopted by the Bureau expressly require that differences arising between the freemen and others and between freedmen themselves shall be adjudicated by the officers and agents of the Bureau except at such places where the civil courts receive the testimony of the colored citizen and everywhere in every circular and order of the and order of the Bureau the reason for exercising this jurisdiction is stated to be to secure to the negro justice before the case. 
Circular No 2 of Gen Fisk
Circular No 5 of Gen Howard
approved by the President June 2 1865. 
Under this branch of the act of congress such rules and regulations have been adopted as to have no question there whenever a freedman is a party the Bureau has jurisdiction unless by the laws of the land persons of color are made competent witnesses in which case the Bureau is ousted of its jurisdiction See Gen Fisk