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and shove out from there, and, if I did not leave, he would make his boy take me in the bottoms, and strip me, and give me five hundred lashes."

I went on to the plantation. When he came he told me the same thing again, and picked up a stick and said "If I did not leave he would whip me there."

I then left and came to Okolona Miss.

Mary Ann her X mark Smith
       
Sworn and subscribed to before me this 4" day of Dec. 1865.

[[signature]] W. F. Dubois [[/signature]] 1st Lt &
Sub Comr. Freedmans Bureau
Post of Okolona
Miss.