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but under the circumstances are doing well. Brundridge Pike Co., Mr Collins J.P. represented affairs within his knowledge in a peaceful condition. No outrages had been committed in the County. On being questioned in this particular case, he said a negro attempted to commit a rape upon a white woman her father Mr Cockrane offered a reward for him and he was caught by Barlow and Jim Moore and delivered to Cockrane and soon after was found hung. Negroes state that they never have heard of an investigation of the matter. White men in the vicinity of the outrage (Clay Hill) state that there was an inquest held upon the negros' body. I left an order for C. F. Bennett J.P Clay Hill (who was absent) to make a full report of the case to me in writing at once by mail. 
You will observe from the foregoing statements that there are in every place differences of opinion as regards the execution of the laws, how freedmen are treated in general &c &c.