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2. Howards Instructions 

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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. sev't.
(Signed.) Wm. H. Sinclair
A.A. Genl.

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(Endorsed) The within is a true and correct copy of the Document delivered to me by P. Howard
the agent of the Negro Bureau
August 21. 1866 

(signed)
S. Townsend
Sheriff Bosque Co. Texas

Writ of Habeas Corpus

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The State of Texas}
County of Bosque}

To Mr. Sherod Townsend Sheriff of Bosque County Texas.
 
In accordance to orders from Brev Majr General J. B. Kiddoo of July the 31st 1866 I demand you to deliver there 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 country of Bosque that he

Transcription Notes:
A couple words that I could not decipher. Other than that it is ready for review.