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unfit depository of judicial or executive authority 

If this is true, there is, today, no proper punishment for serious crimes, at least in Elizabeth City County. In York no good test case has arisen as yet. I think the freedman's court should receive larger powers in both counties.

I am General 
With Great Respect
Your Obdt Servt
S C Armstrong 
Agt in Charge.
 

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