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S&E. 131

Bureau R.F and A.L.
Office Asst Supt. Sub-Dist No. 10-7 Dist
Dept Potomac-Comprising the Counties 
of Augusta and Highland,
Staunton Augusta Co Va Dec. 31st 1866

Captain R.S. Lacey
Supt 7th Dist Va
Lynchburg Va

Captain;

I have the honor to report that in all the "Criminal Trials", of Freedmen which I have attended during the month of December I have witnessed a degree of fairness I had not expected to see in this Sub-Dist.

The only trials I have attended have been in this Town and before magistrates. I have not been notified of any out of Town 

Several cases in which Freedmen were interested came up on the 25th and 26th inst. but so far as the power of the magistrates went, justice was administered. It now remains to see whether or not the Grand Jury, which meets in February next, will cause 

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