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Bureau of Refugees Freedmen and Abandoned Lands,
Headquarters, Superintendent Fifth District, Va. 
Fort Monroe, Va., February 1st 1867

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

General;
I have the honor to report in accordance with circular no 10 [[strikethrough]] C [[/strikethrough]] Series of 1866 that no serious improprieties or injustices appear to have been committed by the civil courts in this District for the month of January 1867. They are doing almost nothing; and, I doubt not that many complaints are ignored by magistrates, owing to the poverty of plaintiffs, that deserve attention. 

Negligence was the chief occasion for complaint of the authorities in which the freedmens courts are now in operation, and, I fully believe that great injustice in that way is now done in many of my counties. Freedmen ignorant of the forms of law are charged enormous and disproportionately by the lawyers whom they employ.

In a trial which came off at Charles City court house last month and

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