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0109 No. 7. in addressing you this communication, is to invoke your explination of the following order. - Bureau of Refugees Freedmen & Abandoned Lands Head Quarters Assistant Commissioner State of Virginia Richmond Virginia 10th July 1865 Genl Order No 2. 1 The following circular from the War Department is published for the information of all concerned: War Department Bureau of Refugees Freedmen & Abandoned Lands Washington 30th May 1865 Circular No 5 } Rules and Regulations for Assistant Comrs vii In all places where there is an interruption of civil Law, or in which Local Courts, by reason of old codes, in violation of the freedom guaranteed by the proclimation of the President and the laws of Congress, disregard the negroe's right to justice before the laws, in not allowing him to give testimony, the
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