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The state of Texas
County of Tarrant

To the Chief of the Freedmans Beaurea
For the District of Texas

Your petitioners would respectfully represent that owing to the unsettled condition of the Freedman in this county growing out of an attrocious murder &c. committed in this county on the persons of two Freedmen near the Town of Birdville Texas on last Saturday night who were taken from their homes and outrage & one brutaly murdered and the other badly if not mortaly wounded who only escaped death by crawling in to a bunch of Woods and fighting death, and for other reason not necessary to name would respectfully as that Dr B.F. Barkely of Birdville Tarrant County Texas be appointed Agent of the Freedmens Beauro for this county  They would furthur represent that Dr B.F. Barkely has the confidence of the entire community bothe white and black that he is a loyal citizen of the United States and alway has alway maintained the reputation of being an uncompromising Union man and we take a pleasure in reccommending him as being one of the best appointments that could be made to that position
Birdville Tarrant Co Tex
Aug 22d 1866

Hamilton Hurst
J B Edens
G W Jack
G W Allen M.D
W.S. Gray
J.F. Gray
H.A. Gray
J.P. Simmons
Ira S Day
W Morris
M A Robertson

W H Hignight
W H Mcmurry
J C Ross
D B Whitley
J C Hancock
W F Davlin
J A Cornelious
T J Cornelius

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