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BUREAU OF REFUGEES, FREEDMEN AND ABANDONED LANDS,
OFFICE ASST. SUP'T. SUB-DISTRICT EMBRACING
NOTTOWAY AND LUNENBURG COUNTIES, VA.
Burkeville, Va., April 27th 1867.

Capt. Garrick Mallery
A.A. Adjutant Gen'l.

I have the honor to invite the attention of the Asst. Commissioner to the following case of which I am officially cognizant of the facts as here represented. 
On Jany 28th/67 a Freedman named Richard Fitzgerald of Nottaway Co. Va. Appeared at the office of the Asst Supindt, bleeding and suffering from a severe cut in the head, (from the effects of which he fainted in this office), he then made complaint that a Mr. J Lacey also of this County, had beat him cruelly with an iron, and without any motivation. I refereed the case to a Justice, with a request for immediate action. Lacy was arrested and placed under Bonds, to answer before the Grand Jury.  that body found a true bill of indictment against Lacy and he was tried before the Circuit County of this County, Judge Chambers, on 22nd day of April. The evidence for the prosecution, the freedman, and two witnesses, swore that Lacy had