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Office Asst. Sub Asst. Comr Bu. R.F. & A.L.
3d Division 2d Sub District State Va
Laurencevill [[Lawrenceville]] Va July 31-67

Bvt Maj. J. R. Stone
Sub Asst. Comr.
Petersburg Va,

Major,

I  I have the honor to report that on the 12 inst. Jesse Arrington, colored, made complaint at this office that Wm H. Smith, for whom he was working for an interest in the crop, made an attack upon him with a drawn knife, on account of some words that passed between them in regard to the cultivation of the tobacco, at the same time threatening his life; that he (Arrington) got out of his way, when Smith ran to his house & got his gun to shoot him: and that he then fled. I at once sent a summons to said Smith to appear before me immediately to answer the complaint, which order he did not obey. I then issued an order to David J. Johnson, Constable, to arrest the said Smith upon the above charges & take him before me or the nearest magistrate. He did not execute the order for several days for some unknown reasons, finally he (Smith)

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