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Wade -Colored- vs. Ricky Furgerson -white. Justice Bernard, to whom this case was referred, readily granted. Plaintif a warrant, which he was about to have executed when I last saw him. 
In my last month's Report I made mention of a Colored Woman, who, for threatening the life of Mary Chartan -white- in default of $5000 bond to keep the peace, had been committed to jail. She had since given security. 
I at the same time named a case of Mary & Hester Ann Hill; colored, vs. Wm A. Burwell -white- for breach of a labor contract (the sum unvalued being 50$) which had been contained from November 3rd to December 1st y Benjamin Hatcher, the Magistrate by whom it was to have been tried, it would seem without sufficient cause, on the plea of the [[strikethrough]] Plaintif [[/strikethrough]] Defendant, through his Brother, that he was forced to be absent: it has, on his representing that his principal witnesses were absent, been further continued to the 5th January 1867; which it appears Burwell has repressed that he will so manage as to have it continued from time to time, indefinitely, and an application made by Plaintif to have Wm case removed to the County Court was deemed by the Magistrate, on the grounds that it could not be done. This