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heavy timber &c." I advised the colored people to act according to these instructions.

Mr. Joseph Colbourn of Kingston about six miles distant informed the colored people that they must make all applications for aid through him and that if they would give him a copy of the deed, he would procure $200. from the U.S. Gov't. for them. He claimed that Gen. Howard had appointed him as an Agent.

I told the Trustees that "if the Bureau had appointed a Democratic Sheriff as their Agent, or would trust $200. of the Bureau funds in their hands to expend as they pleased, it was more than I ever heard of." I also advised them to act according to the

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instructions I had recieved but they would not, nor would they allow me to know any thing about it until they had involved themselves too deeply for me to extricate them.

They bought a piece of land but the [[underlined]] title was not good, [[/underlined]] they secured [[underlined]] no right of way [[/underlined]] (it being two hundred yards from a private road and about eight hundred yards from the County road.) The person who sold it now says he will give no road or right of way unless they buy that also, and has forbid them hauling anything over his land; The deed has never been copied as yet, and the collector appointed has kept nearly half of what he collected. It is not a fit place for a schoolhouse