"Record of Criminal Offenses Committed in the State of Texas"
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content: Records of the Assistant Commissioner for the State of Texas Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1869
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content: Records of the Assistant Commissioner for the State of Texas Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1869 / Series 8: Records Relating to Murders, Outrages, and Other Criminal Offenses
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content: Sept. 1865–Dec. 1868
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content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
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content: NMAAHC.FB.M821, Subseries 8.1
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content: Archival materials
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content: The entries in the "record of criminal offenses," September 1865–December 1868, are numbered consecutively. The entries in the first volume for the period 1865–1868 are not in chronological sequence up to page 43; however, beginning with entry 491 on page 43, and continuing throughout volumes 2 and 3, the entries that span February 1867–December 1868 are arranged chronologically according to the date a particular offense was reported. The information recorded for each entry includes the town from which the offense was reported, the county in which the offense was committed, the name and race of the criminal, the nature of the offense, the name and race of the injured party, a statement of the circumstances, the name of the reporting individual, the date the offense was reported, the action taken by the Bureau, and the action taken by the civil authorities. Most of the entries pertain to crimes committed by whites against freedmen, but crimes of whites against whites, freedmen against freedmen, and freedmen against whites were also recorded. The "record" may have been at least partially compiled from the registered reports described below.