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BUREAU OF REFUGEES FREEDMAN AND ABANDONED LANDS,
Head Quarters Assistant Sub-Assistant Commissioner,
4th DIVISION FRANKLIN COUNTY-,
7th SUB-DISTRICT, STATE OF VIRGINIA,
Rocky-Mount, Va., September 30th 1867.

Bvt. Brig Genl. O. Brown.
Asst. Comm'r.

General:

Pursuant to Par VI, Circular No. 10, series 1866, from your Hd. Qrs., I have the honor to submit the following Report. 

Before the County Court of my division this month, no cases to which a colored person was a party came up for hearing. 

Elsewhere there has been but one case adjudged by the Civil Authorities, which I have any knowledge of; to wit: a freedmen charged with setting a dog on the cow of a white man, which he found in his vegetable patch and running her a quarter of a mile beyond, was bound over to keep the peace. The Freedmen had some time previously made complaint to the same justice of the peace who bound him over, viz: "Isaac M Jones" against a white man for pulling down his fence and riding through his vegetables: the magistrate advised him to bush his fence. He did so; and on the offense being again repeated, he went a second time to the same magistrate, and was then told that if it happens again, he must once more return, and measures would then be taken to bind the trespasser over to keep the peace. 

The Freedmen states that in his own case 

Transcription Notes:
---------- Reopened for Editing 2024-05-08 12:49:30 do not close until there are two or fewer [?] As best I can find, "bushing up a fence" means planting (a bush) near it to make it more difficult to get through. ---------- Reopened for Editing 2024-05-09 07:55:56