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| No of case | On whom committed | White or colored | By whom committed | White or colored | Where | When | By whom reported | Character of outrage and action in the case | 
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   | in the sum of fifty Dollars, to appear at the August term of the Court. | 
| 50 | Flag pole |   | Young men | white | Edinburg, Va | 1868 July 25th | W.F. Lynch Bvt: Lt Col: A.S.A.C. | Report under Cir. 6, for month ending July 31st 1868 Reports attempt, of several young men, to burn a Flag staff, in front of the residence of Mr. Tafley, Asst. Assessor U.S. Intl Rev:, from which Mr T. was accustomed to hang a U.S. Flag - The halyards had been previously cut up into pieces - Mr T. succeeded, after considerable abuse, in dispersing the crowd - He caused the arrest on one of the crowd (a ringleader) & had him brought before a Magistrate - The matter was settled by the individual making an apology. | 
| 51 | Colored man |   | Patrol | white | Essex Co, Va | 1868 July 25th | W.R. Wentworth A.S.A.C. | Report under Cir: 6, for month endg July 31/68. Reports arrest of a colored man, in the Public road, by a patrol of White men, because he had 1 1/2 bushels of corn, that they took the corn from him, without a warrant for arrest. | 
|   |   |   |   |   |   |   | W.R. Wentworth A.S.A.C. | Report under Cir: 6, for month endg 31st Aug/68. "The patrol which I mentioned in my last report are still travelling through this Division. A colored man was brought in to-day by a party of them. After they arrived here the procured a warrant and placed him in jail for stealing" |

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