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BUREAU REFUGEES, FREEDMEN AND ABANDONED LANDS, 
HEAD QUARTERS ASS'T SUB-ASSIST COM'R 4TH DIV. 2ND. SUB-DISTRICT, 
Burkeville, Nottoway Co. Va., May 30th, 1868.

Bv't Captain W.A. Coulter
A.A.A.G. Head Qr's Ass't Comm'r Dist. of Va. 
Richmond, Va. 
(Thro' H'd Qr's 2d Sub-District.)

Captain:
In accordance with the requirements of Circular No. 10, Series of 1866, Head Quarters Assistant Commissioner State of Virginia, I have the honor to submit the following report of the manner in which justice has been administered in this Sub-division during the month of May 1868.

Very few cases were tried this month by the County Court in which freedmen were interested and I saw among them none in which I thought injustice had been done.

One Complaint was received of injustice having been done by a magistrate in dismissing at Complainant's cost a case of assault and battery, committed by a white man upon a negro: This case I re-opened and, upon trial, the evidence sustaining the charge, fined the assailant ten dollars and costs.

The supervision of the civil authorities by the Military is exerting a favorable influence    

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