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To Major Genl Schofield
Commanding the District of Richmond and Assistant Comm "of the Freedmans Bureau
The petition of Watson Doctor of Medicine of the County of Rockbridge in the State of Virginia respectfully showeth that on the  day of  in this year he was ordered [upon his volutary surrender] upon the charge of felonious killing one
a Freedman, and comitted for examination before an examining Court in his County — That on the  day of  he was regularly examined by the said Court and acquitted and discharged from farther prosecution as will appear by the record of the said Court a copy of which is herewith exhibited That the said Court was a regularly constituted Court having jurisdiction by the Laws of Virginia to hear and examine such cases, and to acquit & discharge the prisoner or to send him on for farther trial, and its judgement & acquittal is final so that the accused cannot thereafter be questioned or tried for the same offence"

See the Code of Virginia bk 205 — p 765, Sec 10 —

That on the  day of this month he was arrested for the same offence by  

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