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not yet come off. Mr. Allen has been directed to see that these cases are prosecuted to the full extent of the law. 

Mr. Allen reports that he has commenced proceedings to have three minor children who have been illegally restrained of their liberty restored to their parents.

Jesse A. Brown, Esq, in charge of the Bureau for the counties of Henry, Benton, Weakley and Carroll, reports that he has approved 20 contracts during the month, embracing the names of 20 laborers. Two minor children have been apprenticed to responsible parties. 

Mr. Brown reports that upon the 27th day of April, the colored people employed upon the place of Messrs. Loving & Porter, situated about 1¼ miles from Paris, gave by permission of their employers a dancing party. Every thing went on smoothly until about ten or eleven o'clock, when a lot of rail road hands, white men, about eleven in number, came to the place, and shortly afterwards one of these roughs snatched a watch from a a colored man. A little difficulty immediately arose between the white and blacks. The [[rondies?]] drove the colored