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of these instances was a white man. No appeal from any decision of Court has been asked, and but seldom has dissatisfaction been expressed by either whites or Blacks.

The police force have served cheerfully in every instance when required to do so,- but in serving notices and summonses we find it unnecessary to employ them.
 
I have been shown every courtesy by the Officers of the Civil Court.

I have heard of no decided opposition to the Freedmen's Court among the white people,- but I think they would generally prefer that it were abolished, and the Civil Courts take its place. 

The citizens of this county both white and black are quiet, orderly, and averse to public tumult. 

The instance, of a rape being committed here a that time since, by a freedman upon a white woman in respectable standing, so revolting in its special details, that it created intense indignation and excitement, yet the perpetrator was suffered to be quietly arrested by the Officers of the law, and conducted through

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