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Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen &c
Hd. Qrs. Asst. Commissioner, N.C.
Raleigh, N.C. June 25th 1866.

Maj. Genl. O.O. Howard
Commr. Bu. R.F. & A.L.

General,
I have the honor to report in connection with returns herewith forwarded for the month of May as follows. By virtue of orders from the War Dept. of date May 16, 1866, I assumed the duties of Asst. Commissioner of the Bureau of R.F. and A.L. for the State of North Carolina on the 22" day of May 1866, relieving Colonel Whittlesey in that office.

By virtue of Special Orders, No. 252 War Dept. A.G.O., I was relieved of such duties by Bvt. Maj. Genl. John C. Robinson on the 20" day of June 1866.

The Convention of the State has recinded the proviso to the act passed by the Legislature, relating to the testimony of freedmen in the Courts. It also abolished the distinction before existing by the law in the punishment for assault by a negro or colored man on a white woman with intent to commit a rape.