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debt (that after claiming upwards of Forty dollars) upon the examination of this account I found he had charged the man with the following items. To loss of three hours per day for nine months $27- To fodder destroyed $8- To cabbage destroyed $5.50 To violation of contract $111. Amounting to in all to $511.50. Upon investigation I found that the only ground Mr. Robbins had against the man was breach of contract; which was not clearly proven. Similar cases are often presented to this office, and when it becomes necessary for the freedman to appeal to a County Magistrate in a case not exceeding a certain sum he seldom gets that justice he is justly due. Throughout the county of Henrico I do not know one single Magistrate who will give the freedmen impartial justice, and only one in the County of Chesterfield. That latter gentleman is very popular with the freedmen