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C 34 R.F. & A.L. 1865.

Mayor’s Office
Portsmouth Va, Aug 1st 1865.

Collins, Daniel
Mayor.

States cases of conflict of authority between Military and Civil courts, in cases of Colored men, on account of different construction Of Orders from the Bureau of Refugees &c.

filed rep't enclo.

Recd bk Bureau RF & AL rep't enc'd Aug 14/65
Recd Bureau RF & AL Aug 4/65

War Department
Bureau of Refugees &c.
Washington Aug. 7th

Respectfully referred to Capt. Moses H. Stephens 13th N.Y. Art'y. Judge &c for Freedmen Norfolk Va., for his report and remarks on this case. Please return these papers therewith.

By Order of Maj. Genl. Howard
Saml L Taggart
A.A. General.

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