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[[stamp]] THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE UNITED STATES [[/stamp]]
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subordinates for a month past has been to circulate a petition requesting my removal from this County, (It is probably been referred to you ere this, I will only say in regard to it, that to the best of my ability, I have done my duty, that probably half the men who signed that petition never saw me, I trustingly rely on my superior officers for support.)  This police is very ineficient, they allow their prejudices against the negro to rule their actions, and are not governed by a proper appreciation of the want of society.  Its chief, told me that he would disobey my orders, and remove some Freedmen from a place where I had given them permission to stay, as he was a civil officer, and had orders to do so from a civil magistrate-- and only compllied with [[strikeout]] it [[/strikeout]] my orders after I threatened to arrest and send him to Richmond.  I can bring good testimony to prove that he has said he would not arrest a white man under my order.  Almost the only thing that the police are zealous in, is the persecution of the Freedmen.  They have taken 
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