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family are suffering  this man has now been forced to institute what may prove eventually a lengthy and expensive suit. - The lack of authority here to enforce an immediate surrender is greatly felt; and there are many who suffer seriously from this need. 

I know of but one case which as been elsewhere adjudged during the month. On the 14th a Colored woman named "Polly Smythers" was by "John J Saunders," J.P., bound over to keep the peace for an alleged trespass on the land of Mrs "Ann Noads"[[?]] white. A son of this person who sued the Colored woman for some shingles obtained of her (and since put on a house belonging to his mother) had told her to cut down certain trees on his mother's land, in payment of the debt. He, however, afterwards left the place, & on her attempting to cut down the trees, she was dealt with as described.

No apprehensions of Colored persons other than as hereinbefore detailed have been made during the month. A warrant which was taken out for the arrest of a man named "Chas. Woods," for stealing a hog, was not executed, owing to his having absconded.

On my last Report in accordance with Circular No 10, I mentioned the case of a freedman named "Louis Handeman," whose Wife having been enticed away by a bad  white woman named "Pheby Lara," in an unlawfully cohabiting with another freedman, on the land of the white woman. House man having, by my direction, made complaints of the fact before the Grand Jury this month, that body failed to take any action in the matter.

There were several other cases of injury inflicted by white, on colored persons,  which should have been who brought before that same Grand

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