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[[stamp]] THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE UNITED STATES [[/stamp]]

City Point Va
September 30th 1866 

Bvt Lt Col Jas A. Bates
A.A.A. Gen'l 

Sir;

I have the honor to report in regard to the courts of this County (Prince George) that less business than usual has been transacted before them. At the last county court the cases of Bristol Harris & Ned Banks were examined, a nolle prosequi was entered in the case of the first, and the second was sent on to the circuit. I will call your attention to the fact that the magistrates did not inform me of the hearing in either case - If they had done so I could have saved the man Banks from conviction, as the only evidence against him was the admissions made by himself. I mention this not that

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