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by declining to receive. an oath or sworn information, tendered by a colored person &c.
At the last term of the Augusta Co Court, there was but one case, before the Court, in which a colored person, appeared as a party to the action. which case was continued by reason of the absence of material witnesses.
It is my intention as soon as I become acquainted with the Magistrates in my new field of operation. to permit no cases to go before those officers in whom I have no confidence and to continue as far as possible the adjudication of difficulties in which freedmen are interested in my office.
I am Capt.
Very Respectfully
Your obt Svt,
Jno. W. Jordan
A.S.A. Commr &c.
B of R.F. & A.L.