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Bureau. R.F & A.L,
Office Asst Supr'dt.
Burnsville Va. Feb 28th 1867.

Bt Brig Gen. O. Brown,
A.A. Adjutant Gen'l.

I have the honor to report, that on the 28th January 1867, a Freedman named Isaac Royal was arrested by two citizens of this County without any authority for so doing, and brought before a Mr. Royal, a Magistrate of this County on the charge of Petty Larceny, who committed the Freedman to jail, on the Statement of a citizen named Emoughty without any sworn evidence being given whatever, and merely on the citizens version of the affair, the Freedman was committed to answer before the County Court on 7th. Feb, and when the Court convened, it was just then ascertained, that the papers ordering the commitment of the prisoner, were made out irregularly, and that the prisoner could not then be tried but should be remanded to Jail, until the papers could be made out properly, the Freedman waiting until the next term of the County Court for his trial, thus causing an unnecessary and unjust imprisonment.

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