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0564

Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands,
Office Superintendent 8th District, State of Virginia,
Wytheville, Va., August 31st 1866.

Bvt. Brig, Genl , O. Brown
A, A, A, Genl
General,
I have the honor to make the following chomsolidated report of the administration of Civil Justice in the 8th District Bureau of RF and AL State of Va for the month, of August 1866, 

There has been no case reportd to me in the district where civil Justice has been refused to Freedmen except in the County of Smith, in apprenticing Minor Children without the consent of parents as reported by Lt. B E Hise asst supt 8th Dist Va, and the county court not making provisions for the colored paupers of its county,

Very Respectfully
Your Obt Servant
Geo. P. Sherman
Capt. V.R.C. and Supt 8th Dist
Bureau of RF and AL State of Va.