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Lieut. Reed Asst Supt. and with statement that the magistrates of this county are the weakest of the judicial officers in my dist.  I should not consider them, were there no prejudice of color, equal to the duties of their positions.  Further, they are all engrossed in business and it is idle to suppose that they would devote much of their time to the tedious and profitless hearing of difficulties between freedmen, which now keeps Lieut Reed constantly employed.

SC Armstrong
Supt 5th dist Va.