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They said colored men to jail to await the action of the County Court, two (2) of the colored men has since been released, for what reason I do not know as they have had no trial since the were committed to jail. I waited on the said magistrate and asked him why he did not arrest the said Coleman on complaint of the said colored men he "the magistrate" told me that he did not know that the laws authorized him to arrest or try a white man on the complaint of colored men. He says he lives in the lower end of the County and knows very little about the laws and that he was going to resign his office Very Respectfully Your Obedient Servant Robert Cullen Lieut Asst Supt Bureau R F & A L Holloway County Va
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Holloway County is now part of YORK county