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cannot as a general thing be entrusted with the class of cases alluded to yet this month. I have no instances to report wherein any injustice was inflicted upon a colored person, by reason of prejudice &c neither has my attention been called to any complaint coming from a colored person reflecting upon any authority vested with the power of regulating or instituting proceedings in criminal or civil cases.

Every effort is made by me to bring about peaceable & just adjudications between all parties i.e. between white and colored and between the colored themselves, thus preventing useless expense and unnecessary risks to the freedmen - This line of policy saves much unkind feeling between the races and has evidently contributed vastly toward bringing them 

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