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Bureau of the Refugees. Freedmen &c.
Dinwiddie C.H. Va.
January 24th 1867

Bvt Brig Gen'l O. Brown.
A.A.A. General.

Sir -
In compliance with the requirements of Circular Order, No 10, from your H'd Qrs. I have the honor to report as follows - Very little business in which the interests of the freedmen were concerned, was transacted by the Courts in this sub district. At the Pr George Court a U.S. Soldier was examined on the charge of having stolen a hundred dollars from a freedman, and was sent on to be tried at the March term of the Circuit Court. This was the only case. I had one complaint from a woman at City Point who had been beaten by a man named Wiseman. I sent her to a J.P. who bound him over to keep the peace, but did not send him on. I shall lay the case before the Grand jury myself. At the Dinwiddie Court the only case, was between to freed - people,
A woman tried to "swear a child",
over