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and trading with the Freedman, and they stealing Hogs Bacon wheat &-. Do the Civil Laws reach such cases?  Under the laws previous to 1861, I as Justice of the Peace cannot take Freedman's testimony against a white person's as those laws forbid it.  I am at a loss what to do in such cases.  I had a case a few days since in which three white men were caught, and one of them, acknowledged that they had been making arrangements with Freedman to furnish them with Pork and such things, or in other words,  anything they could steal.  Few Freedman have nothing of that kind to sell without they steal it, and then they, the white men make this trip at night, and they trades are made under the cover of darkness.

Your earliest attention to the above is Respectfully requested.

Wm J Weems, Justice of the Peace
Russell Co Ala Beat 13.