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Office Agent Bureau R.F. & AL.
Suffolk Va
April 30th 1867

Brevet Brig General
O. Brown
Asst Comr Bureau R.F. & AL.
Richmond Va.

General
I have the honor to transmit the following Monthly Report for the month of April 1867 in compliance with Circular No 10. Bureau R.F. & AL Head Qrs Asst Comr Va. Richmond Va March 12th 1866, of the manner in which the Order restoring to the State Authorities jurisdiction in the trial of Criminal Cases of Freedmen has resulted in the Sub District of and State of Norsemond Bright Counties Va.

It is a settled fact that in this Sub District the whites as a general rule cannot believe that a colored man can tell the truth even when under oath, therefore their evidence is received with a very small degree of faith and in one case which was tried before the Superior Courts at this place on the 19th inst. and of which a report has already been made and forwarded, the evidence of one White man, and him in 
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