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Padue, in which he set forth that the aforesaid women having informed him that the Lieutenant in charge of the Freedmens Bureau at "Rockamount" requested he should arrest the aforementioned man, he issued his warrants, commanding constable to arrest said men and take them before the said Lieutenant at "Rockamount" to be dealt with according to law; and to execute one of these warrants, he sent the constable out of Franklin, into some other County, beyond his jurisdiction. The Constable was much alarmed when he discerned that he had laid himself liable to be prosecuted for illegal arrest of the Parties, in bringing them here as he did; and to take them back would have but made the matter worse, since, in the one case, the mother of the child born could not leave her bed to go before the magistrate in order to take the required oath, and in the other case, the child, as required by law, had not yet been born; it was, however, shortly after; prematurely hastened by the undue exertion and excitement to which the mother had unnecessarily been subjected; and it also in consequence, died. Now, who is there can credit that a complaint made before a Magistrate by a white against a colored person would be slighted, or a request from me, actually and formally made, to arrest a white man would be honored with the slightest attention.
I mentioned in my last Report the burning of some small huts on "Grassy Hill" near this place. Since then two of the white women who lived there complained to me of the affair, and denied that there was anything wrong about the place. They say they were offered money- fifty cents or so from each one of those concerned in destroying the huts- and it was tried, to  

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