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Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands,
Headquarters, Superintendent Fifth District, Va.
Fort Monroe, Va. December 3 1866

Bvt Brig Genl O. Brown
A.A.A.G.

General;
In accordance with Circular No 10 C.S. from office of the Assistant Commissioner I have the honor to report that Civil administration in the counties wherein it is allowed, create no trouble in the counties where there is no litigation. Wherever there is litigation there is more or less trouble owing to a disposition to pass light over any injury done to a black by a white man, but to severely punish the black negro when he is the aggressor. See reports of Capt Brooks Asst Supt [[??]] Co

In Accomack Co this disposition increases to absolute refusal to try a white offender where a negro is the injured party.

Humanity and justice to freedmen seem to require the government to interfere in that