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Hd Qrs Sub.Dist Matthews and Gloucester Cos.
Bureau R.F. & A. S.
Matthews CH, Va. April 3d 1867

Genl S.C. Armstrong
Superintendent
General

Eliza Brooks (Cold) has made a complaint at this office, that her house was illegally and without a warrant, entered and searched by William Brunly (white) on Sunday March 24 for a "Shoat" which she was reported to have stolen and have in her possession.

She gives the names of three witnesses whom she says can prove this.

I advised her that in this affair her rights were exactly those of a white person, neither more or less, and that the only satisfaction for her was before a court of justice, and that I had no power to help her in any way except by advice.

She said that she had no money to enable her to prosecute, and I foreseene the affair will rest where it is.  But I decided it proper to report the case, for if upon trial