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Bureau R. F. and A. L's
Office 4th Div. 11. Sub. Dist. Va.
Halifax Court House Va
May 31st 1868.

Bt. Brig. Gen. O. Brown
Assistant Commissioner.

General.
In compliance with circular No. 10 I have the honor to state that there has been but one case where the colored man has been treated differently from a white man under the same circumstances, and that was not the falt [fault] of the court, but with the jury, and to have you fully comprehend the case, things must be related foreign to the case.

In the Summer of 1866, George Williams (sometimes known as George Coleman) a Blacksmith by trade, was asked to accept an order for $25.00 in favor of on [one] R. P. Jennings, whom Georg [George] did not owe so much as one cent - altho [although] Jennings thought he did & George refused to accept the order. Jennings then struck George [[strikethrough]] and shortly left, [[/strikethrough]] and he, and one [[strikethrough]] of the [[/strikethrough]] other of the defendant left, they returned in a short time bringing with them the third man, they were all armed one with an axe the others with pistols, they made another demand on George to sign the order, he replied he did not owe anything and he would die in his tracks before he would sign the order - when one of the parties placed a revolver to his ear and snaped [snapped] it, it did not go off. one held an axe over his head calling on the others to shoot the rascal through the

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