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Bureau Refugees Freedmen and Abandoned Lands
Office Asst Sub Asst Comr 2d Div 11th Sub Dist Va
Maysville Va. Aug 31st 1868

Brig Genl O Brown
Assistant Comr Va.
Richmond Va.  (Thro 11th Sub Dist Hd Qrs.)

General, 
In compliance with par 6 circular No 10. from Head Quarters Assistant Comr Va. dated Richmond Va. March 12th 1866. concerning the operation of the order restoring to the Civil Courts Jurisdiction over Colored Persons in Civil and Criminal cases, I have the honor to Report, that no cases have occured where Injustice has been done to any Colored Person By Officers having authority to act in the Premises. Few complaints are made by the Colored People, but all complaints when tendered on Oath are immediately 

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