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Transcripts of Mayor's Docket — Mobile (Subassistant Commissioner)

Aug.–Sept. 1865

African American history · place not specified

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Source catalog description

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Unbound transcripts of mayor's docket, August-September 1865, are arranged and numbered in chronological order. The entries consist of brief abstracts of cases tried before the mayor of Mobile. They give the date of the case, the persons involved, the nature of the case, officers and witnesses involved, and the judgment rendered.

Collection
Records of the Field Offices for the State of Alabama, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1872
Archival grouping
Records of the Field Offices for the State of Alabama, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1872 / Series 4: Subordinate Field Offices / 4.18: Mobile (Subassistant Commissioner)
Catalog date
Aug.–Sept. 1865
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Catalog reference: NMAAHC.FB.M1900, File 4.18.7

Collection: Records of the Field Offices for the State of Alabama, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1872

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