Viewing page 41 of 270

This transcription has been completed. Contact us with corrections.

The evidence of Freedman, is not, taken with the same degree of faith as it should be, in cases where Freedmen are only one of the parties interested, on account of the whites as a general thing believing it to be morally impossible for a Colored man to swear to the truth in such cases, but where both parties are Freedmen, then their oath is taken with a more favorable degree of faith.

I am very respectfully 
Your obedient Servant
J.W. Barnes
(Late Capt & V.R.C.) Asst Supt. Bureau
R.F.& A.L.