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of more frequent occurrence than during the preceding Month. Many of these decisions are prejudicial to the interest
of the Freedmen, and are calculated to debar them from their legal rights as citizens before Civil Courts.
Appeals are frequently made by Freedmen to the Mayor, to have other witnesses summoned on their behalf, and to have their case adjourned until they can be procured. These appeals are rarely granted, but when the whites ask for an adjournment to procure witnesses for their defence, no objection is offered and their application is granted. The injustice practiced upon the Freedmen in these Courts is no doubt attributable to the recent Laws in Congress, in placing the colored people on an equality with the whites, and giving them the full right of citizenship.  The white community are generally opposed to this measure, and are fully bourne out by the Mayor, who by his arbitrary proceedings,