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[[stamp]] THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE UNITED STATES [[/stamp]]

Petition for certiorari or Review

Georgia
Liberty County

To Major Genl Davis Tillson, Assistant Commissioner of the Freedman's Bureau for the State of Georgia -

The Petition of L. John Mallard, Respectfully Herewith. That one Morris Le Conte, (colored) instituted his suit against your petitioner in the Freedmans Court for said county in an action of Trover for the Recovery of a mule, once in his possession, but to which your petitioner now claims title. - The case was tried by Col Wm. B. Goulden Agent of the Freedmans Bureau for said county, and was decided adversely to your petitioner. But your petitioner honestly believes that the said Agent erred in so deciding. All which will more fully appear by a careful Review and investigation of the evidence, and law appertaining to said case -

Wherefore your petitioner prays that said decision may be reversed, and overruled. If in the justice of the case, the law and the evidence may render said error manifest to your Honor. And your petitioner, as in duty bound will ever pray &c. -

L. John Mallard
By his Oath
William S. Norman
McIntosh C.O. Lib. Co. Ga.