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From it, I can easily visit any portion of my division without being detained very long from my office, and at the same time it affords an opportunity for any colored person to apply for redress. From this point I can be at this place and sending on court days and not be absent from my office more than one or two days. It will also afford me an opportunity to visit places in either county where there are public gatherings, where disturbances, with Freedmen, so frequently occur.

You will see by looking at the map that I am not in one corner of my division being but eight miles from Prince William County and upwards of six by from Jefferson; the former N.E. and the latter N.W. from my division, which precludes my having that access to the people of the division which is so entirely required in order to facilitate a proper intercourse with them. It is a well established fact, as you are undoubtedly aware, that the major portion of the colored people of the division are in Upper Loudoun and Fauquier Cos