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may be tried by the laws of the United States in regard to offenses committed by the Freedmen in the late Rebbell States.

August 16th 1866 (signed)

Philip Howard U.S.
Sub ast. Commissioner of the Freedmen's Bureau

Howards receipt

(Copy) 

Received of Sherod Townsend Sheriff of Bosque County the boy Daniel Jones this August the 16th 1866

(signed) 

Philip Howard  U.S.
sub asst. Commissioner of Freedmen at Meridian Bosque Co.

(Endorsed) 

I Sherod Townsend Sheriff of Bosque County, certify that the within is a true [[strikethrough]] copy [[/strikethrough]] and correct copy of the original now in my hands.

Aug 21st 1866 

(signed)
S Townsend
Shff B.C.