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War Dept. is published for the Information of all concerned:

War Department.
Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen & Abandoned Lands.
Washington, D.C. May 30th, 1865

Circular
No. 5

Rules and Regulations for Assistant Commissioners.

VII.  In all places where there is an interruption of civil law, or in which local courts by reason of old codes in violation of the freedom guaranteed by the Proclamation of the President and the laws of Congress disregard the negro's right to justice before the laws, in not allowing him to give testimony, the control of all subjects relating to Refugees and Freedmen being committed to this Bureau, the Assistant Commissioner will adjudicate either themselves or through officers of their appointment all difficulties arising between the negroes themselves or between negroes and whites or Indians except those in military service so far as recognizable by the Military authority and not taken cognizance of by other tribunals civil or military of the United States.

O. O. Howard, Maj. Genl 
Commissioner Bureau R.F & A.L.

Approved June 2nd 1865,
Andrew Johnson
President of the United States

II.  Capt. John Kreess, 2nd Pa. Art'y. having reported for duty in this Bureau is hereby appointed to take cognizance of all cases arising under the above order in the city of Petersburg, Va.
He will adjudicate in all cases in which the penalty does not exceed a fine of one hundred (100) dollars or imprisonment at hard labor for thirty (30) days. All other cases will be referred by him to a commission appointed by the Military commandant of the Sub District. 
He will forward to these Hd. Qrs. weekly reports of his proceedings under this order and pay over to the Superintendent of Freedmen of the District all fines collected taking therefor Duplicate receipts one copy of which will be forwarded to these Hd. Qrs.

O. Brown,
Col. & Asst. Com'r

              
General Order
No. 12
August 19th 1865

In accordance with orders received from Hd. Qrs. Bureau R. F & A. L. it is hereby ordered that wherever issues of rations have been made by Superintendents or Asst. Superintendents to planters or others to aid them in the subsistence of their employees, that all such issues be

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