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deliver [[strikethrough]] to deliver [[/strikethrough]] they negro Boy Daniel Jones whom you hold as a prisoner in your Custody into my Custody as a United States Officer over the Freedmen in Said County of Bosque that he may tried by the Laws of the United States in regard to offences committed by the freedmen in the late Rebbel States

August 16th 1866 
(signed) Philip Howard U.S.
Sub Asst. Commissioner of the F.B.

The foregoing is a true copy of Mr Howards letter to the Sheriff of Bosque County - accompany said letter was the following letter from Wm H. Sanclair A.A.G to Mr Philip Howard. 

"Do not permit outrages to be perpetrated on Freedmen when you have the military to assist you without arresting and punishing either by fines or imprisonment or both. In aggravated cases send the parties to Houston for trial before a Military Commission. If you think the boy confined for attempting to commit a rape is unjustly held, and there is no good grounds for the action of the Civil Courts in the case, take it out of their hands and try it yourself.

I am very Respectfully your
Obt. servant
(Signed) Wm H Lanclair
A A Genl"

The prisoner was delivered up by the Sheriff, into the hands of Mr Howard, who sent the accused freedmen [[strikethrough]] of [[/strikethrough]] to his plantation as I have been credibly informed