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Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands,
Head Quarters 2nd Sub-District, Virginia
Petersburg, Va, November 26th 1867

Bvt Brig Gen O Brown
Asst Commissioner
Richmond

General
I have the honor in compliance with existing orders to report as follows in reference to those cases in which colored men are parties and in which I have taken jurisdiction as Military Commissioner of the city of Petersburg and the Counties of Dinwiddie and Prince George for the month of November 1867. to date

1st Commonwealth vs Clayborne Hicks
Charge - Threatening language
Accused examined before Justice J C Burrows of Prince George County, in October and committed to jail in default of bonds to keep the peace.  October 25th  The wife of Hicks complained to me that "Jeff" Hobbs first assaulted her husband; that the latter then