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Bureau Refugees Freedmen and Abandoned L
Hd Qrs 3d Div 11th Sub Dist Va
Boydton Va June 30th 1868

Bvt Brig Genl O Brown
Asst Com Bu R F and A L Dist Va
Richmond Va.

General:
In accordance with Par 6 Cir 10 Series 1866 Hd Qrs Asst Com State Va I have the honor to make the following report, viz: That the regular monthly sessions of the County Court of this County is but little better than a farce, their time principally during the last two sessions have been taken up in listening to the most violent Rebel speeches, while men are lying in jail from time to time charged with crime in most cases on circumstantial evidence, and their cases cannot be tried or rather the Authorities will not try them. Justice for Freedmen here except in isolated cases before a single Magistrate is a thing of the past. And it will be no better here until some policy is settled 
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