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be summoned to testify. These parties, however, not wishing to neglect their business to go ten or more miles, applied to me for a copy [[Strikethrough]] record [[/Strikethrough]] of the record in the case; and they being all acquainted together, on this authority Mr. Hatcher was induced to confirm the previous judgment; to the utter indignation of the Defendant. 

On the first Saturday - the 3rd of the month, an action for breach of a labor contract (which had been executed under the auspices of the Bureau) the parties to which were, "Mary Hill" & "Hester Ann", her Daughter, Colored, vs. "Mr. A. Burwell", white; the sum involved being $50.00 was to have come up before the same magistrate. The Plaintif having walked, as did also her witnesses, twelve miles to the place appointed, the case was continued till the first Saturday, the 1st of December, through the representation of the Brother of the Plaintif Defendant, that he had been called away on important business, and through Mr. Hatcher himself declared he aught to have been there; and on their return, Plaintif's Husband says he saw Defendant peering out at them from inside some case on the way, behind the door or window.

In my Report of Sep. 30th, pursuant to Circular No. 10, I made mention that a Freedman named "Henry Fry" had been arrested & taken before a magistrate in Pittsylvania Co. & made to give his "bond" for $42.00 for having abducted, as alleged, his own child. "Spencer" from "John Patterson's" place, in this County; the Child having been kept fourteen days the charge therefor being at the rate of $3.00 per day. Fry, who denies that he used any means to get the Boy [[Strikethrough]] but [[/Strikethrough]] away from Patterson, states that he subsequently employed a Lawyer Corbell of Pitt. Co., who clearly proved the illegality of the bond given & thereby cleared him of the liability. On the Freedman now bringing satisfactory proof (which there will be no trouble about) that he is the true Father & is capable of supporting his son. I will at once annul the indenture & should Patterson

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