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own responsibility.  They then told me that the case would be dismissed, that papers in regard to it, would be filed in the County Clerk's Office and that if the negro wished to proceed with it, he could complain to the court in two weeks.

I then left the house went out in the yard and talked with Mr Stokes about fifteen minutes, & then came on home.  Since they have heard that the negro had reported to me, they have been to me and deny that the case was dismissed & say they have continued it to April 21st -

Mr Neal has been to me, and says that he told the negro to go to his barn and stay there, that the negro asked his advice & that he told him, d-n him he had better be at home planting corn and that he would not advise him.)  Please mark the fact that I sent this man to a magistrate near the town & that the hearing was had ten miles from here, other magistrates, have done likewise.

I have had two hearings in one day, one fifteen miles from the C.H, & the other five, and in opposite directions, the police arrest negroes on 

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