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5. Vol. 1484.
Personal.

5. Vol. 1485.
December 19th 1866.

Chalfin Bvt. Col: S.F.
A.A. Genl. Dept. Potomac

Colonel,
I have the honor to request a detail of three (3) enlisted men to act as orderlies to the military commission, now convened at the Custom House in this city.

I am, Colonel
Very Respectfully 
Your Obt. Servt.
(signed) O. Brown
A.A.A. Genl.

Official
Garrick Mallery
A.A.A. Genl.

5.Vol.1486.
December 19th 1866.

Bates Capt. James A.
Supt.

Captain,
The Asst. Commissioner directs that you provide rations and Quarters for James and Philip Carter, Cold, witnesses in the case of Dr. Watson, until they are discharged by the Military Commission now convened.

You will have them sent to Captain Garrick Mallery's room on 8th Street this evening at 8 o'clock.

I am Captain
Very Respectfully 
Your Obt. Servant
(signed) O. Brown
A.A.A. Genl.

Official
Garrick Mallery
A.A.A. Genl.

5.V.1487.
December 19th 1866.

Armstrong General S.C.
Supt.

General,
I have the honor to inform you that an order has been issued detaching the county of King William from your District and attaching it to the 3rd District.

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Mr. Frank A. Butts has been relieved as Asst. Supt. and ordered to report to you. When you have no further use for him, you can discharge him.

I am General
Very Respty 
Your Obt. Servt.
(signed) O. Brown
Bvt: Brig: Genl. Vols.
A.A.A. Genl.

Official
Garrick Mallery
A.A.A. Genl.

5.V.1488.
December 19th 1866.

To the Hon: Circuit Court of the
City of Richmond in session, Va.

I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt, through the hands of James Lyon Esqr. of the writ of your Honorable Court, dated at the City of Richmond, this 19th of December 1866, commanding me to have the body of James L. Watson, now under my custody, before the Judge of your Honorable Court, on to-day at 2 o'clock P.M. together with the cause of his being taken and detained - To which I have the honor to respectfully answer as follows - to wit:
 
James L. Watson was arrested by my order on the 4th day of December, instant, and is now held for trial by Military Commission, under Authority of the Act of Congress of July 16th 1866, which act directs and requires the President, through the Commissioner and officers of the Freedmens Bureau to exercise military jurisdiction over all cases and questions concerning the free enjoyment of the right to have full and equal benefit of all laws and proceedings concerning personal liberty, personal security, &c. by all citizens, without respect to race or color or previous condition of slavery, of the States whose constitutional relations to the Government of the United States have been discontinued by the rebellion, and have not been restored.

The above named Act of Congress has been officially published to the Army, by the President through the War Department, for the information and government