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On the 29th and 30th June, and again a few days later, a number of the freedmen who had been thus assaulted and robbed, made formal complaint against the guilty parties by name before Mr. Geo. S. Rew Justice of the Peace, who refused to issue the warrants demanded. His statement is hereafter given. On the 10th of July a similar application was made to Mr. William H. Dix another Justice of the Peace, who also refused to issue the warrants but on the complainant returning to him the next day in company with Bvt Maj Geo. H. French, Asst. Supt of the Bureau for the Counties of Accomac and Northampton, he did issue the warrant a copy of which is hereto annexed marked Exibit A. This warrant was so far executed that the parties named appeared before Justice Dix at Woodstock on July 12th but the hearing was posponed by him until July 14th when the parties also appeared at the same place. They were armed and accompanied by a large number of armed men, and announced to the Justice that they would kill the first negro who tried to give evidence against them. Mr. Dix was intimidated, gave up the attempt to try the criminals, endorsed the warrant that the Civil authority could not be carried out and gave the warrant with that endorsement to Maj French who was present. (See the full statement of Justice Dix hereafter set forth). When Maj French left the ground, the gang of whites amounting to over one hundred, commenced assaulting the negroes, who had come to give evidence, and drive them away pursuing with shots. It is not distinctly known what injuries were inflicted on that occasion. some of the negroes were so much frightened that they abandoned their homes for the time-