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Bureau R.F. and A. Lands
Office A.S.A. Comr, 3d Div 1st Sub Dist Va
Suffolk Va Sept 30th 1868

Brt Capt. Wills A Coulter
A.A.A Gen, Bureau R.F & AL. District of Virginia
Richmond Va

Captain
I have the honor to make the following report for the month of September 1868 in compliance with Circular No 10. B.R.F & A Lands Head Quarters Asst. Commissioner, District of Virginia, Richmond March 12th 1866; of the manner in which the order restoring, to the civil authorities, jurisdiction in the trial of criminal cases in which freedmen are parties; has resulted in the 3d Division 1st Sub. District of Va consisting of Nansemond and Isle of Wight Counties

In the trial of freedmen the same forms are gone though with as in the trial of Whites, but the strong feelings of prejudice, which exist in the minds of majority of the White people
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