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I also fined Levi Vest five dollars for striking a colored boy and otherwise abusing him- (this suit was commenced in February)

I fined Ben Bush a freedman for knowingly and willfully making an unjust claim and causing several parties to ride twenty four miles Bush having acknowledged that he had no claim against the parties he summoned some days previous to my having summoned them, this fact was proven by Bush's own wife and his fellow servants- 

I fined James Adams five dollars for calling the colored people he met on the road to look at the Freedmens Bureau which he told them he had in his wagon and then when they approached him striking them.

I have also fined a man named George Morgan twenty five dollars ($25) for striking a freedman named James Alexander with a stick, the assault was made by Morgan without any provocation on the part of Alexander.

I gave Morgan until the 30th of April to pay the fine, which he has failed to do, I most respectfully request that I be instructed from Hd Qrs to arrest this man and send him to Richmond, where he can be confined until the fine is paid.

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