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Bureau of R.F. & A.L.
Hd. Qts. Asst. Sub-Asst. Comr.
4th Division, Franklin Co.,
7th Sub. Sub-District Va.,
Rocky-Mount, June 30th 1867.

Bvt. Brig. Genl. O. Brown.
Asst. Comr.

General:
In obedience to Par. 6, Circular No. 10, Series 1866, from your Hd Qts., I have the honor to report that no opportunity has offered during the past month, for me to judge of the manner in which the several orders, by restoring to the State authorities jurisdiction over cases in which colored persons may be concerned, have resulted with reference to the interests of the latter, within my Division.
Before the County Court but one case came up, to which colored persons were parties. By a previous Court a colored Boy had been bound to a Freedmen. At the last term of the Court the father of the Boy coming forward made application to have the indenture rescinded. This was very properly done.
I know of no case where a colored person was concerned that has been elsewhere adjudged during the month; and no apprehensions whatever, of either colored or white, have been made for the last three months. The difference in this since

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