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Reconstruction Act of of Congress passed March 2nd 1867 it is clear that the power of the District Commander to designate the tribunals before which Criminals shall be tried, extends to all cases that may arise, and there is nothing in any other section of said Act, or in those supplementary thereto, by which any exception to the rule here laid down, is established. 

The 14th Section of the Freedmans Bureau Bill- passed July 16th 1866, refers merely to legal capacity of the Freedmen, and has no application to controversies between party & party, as to their rights & obligations arising from Contracts or other civil relations. But even if there be any Repugnance between the Acts of Congress the last of course must prevail.

The Civil Rights Bill approved April 9th 1866, is inapplicable to this question.

As the law now stands, the authority of the District Commander, cannot be interfered with in any manner by the Asst. Commissioner of the Freedmens Bureau, under the pretext that they are vested with jurisdiction in cases when Freedmen are parties; and no such Jurisdiction was ever delegated to them by any law of Congress except as