Freedmen's Bureau Records: W. Storer How to
Assistant Superintendents, November 18, 1865
Summary:
How addresses all of the district's Assistant Superintendents as a group,
instructing them that they are not to make groundless arrests outside of the
proper channels of the legal system.
Asst Supts
Nov 18t 1865
Winchester
Reports having been received that [added: some of] the agents of this Bureau are in the habit of arresting Citizens to [unclear: answer] trial on groundless charges made against them by the freedmen.
Asst. Supts are instructed not to arrest citizens against whom complaints are made except in serious criminal cases where the proof is clear, or the presumption great, unless they fail to appear after suitable notice from competent authority.
W.S.H.
Capt &c
