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   "VII.  This order, however, must not be so construed as to give the colored man immunities not accorded to other persons.  If he is charged with the violation of any law of the State, or an ordinance of any city, for which offence the same penalty is imposed upon white persons as upon blacks; and if courts grant to him the same privileges as are accorded to white men, no interference on the part of the military authorities will be permitted.  Several instances have recently been reported in which military officers, claiming to act under the authority of the order above mentioned," (i.e. Par VII., Circular 5., B.R.F.+A.L.,) "have taken from the custody of the civil authorities negroes arrested for theft, and other misdemeanors, even in cases where the courts were willing to concede to them the same privileges as are granted to white persons.  These officers have not been governed by the spirit of the order.  The object of the Government is not to screen this class from just punishment, not to encourage in them the idea that they can