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upon the application of colored people in the following causes.

I.  A colored child whose father was a slave and whose mother was free before the war, was after its mothers death apprenticed several years ago without the consent of the father. The father asked that the child be restored to him. The Court after hearing the case, granted the prayer, and the child was given into his custody.

II.  A colored woman ran away from her master during the war, leaving her child with him, and upon returning to him and asking him for it she was refused and ordered to leave the place. After trial the child was, by order of the Court, restored to his mother.

III.  A colored man after having made a contract, becoming disatisfied, left his employer who had him arrested and put in jail on the charge of obtaining "money under false pretenses" -  he was brought before the Court on a visit and discharged - the Court holding that only a civil action could be brought against him. I give these cases simply as an evidence that the rights of colored people are being gradually acknowledged.

At LaGrange and vicinity the freedpeople have gone to work on the farms