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His practice is to first examine all cases that concern the Freedmen, and if sufficient cause for a trial appears, to turn them over to the civil courts. 

Cases of feigning injuries are not uncommon. One such case came up while I was in the office there. Dr. Wilhite, being present examined the call and pronounced most of the injuries to be feigned. But it was not best to arraign the party who had struck and threatened her, and after hearing both parties, the case was dismissed with a rebuke to both parties, and the admonition that a recurrence of such conduct would call for punishment.

The woman was reproved for violence and unruliness, and the overseer for striking her, and threatening her with a pistol. 

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