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To: General A.C. Gillem. commanding in the State of Mississippi and Cheif of the Bureau of Freemen, &c in said State

The Undersigned George F. Granberry, a resident of Hinds County in said State, begs leave to submit the following statement of facts, and to ask for such interference and relief in the premises, as they may show him to be entitled to.
On the 5th day of January 1866. he made a contract in writing, in two parts, and one of which is filed here with as Exhibit A tasked to be considered in this connexion, with John Vickus and Margaret his wife and Fanny Burnett, all freedmen, as laborers on his plantation [[?]] that year, and states that one Brackston Vickus, a minor was included in the bargain which was made with John Vickus, for himself and the others, although the name of the said Brackston, is not mentioned in the body of said contact or signed to it -
That on or about the date of said contract all four of said freedmen came came upon his premises, entered in to his employment, and so continued until about the end of the year 1866., in very many respects, in the opinion of the undersigned, failing to comply with the terms of their contract and imposing themselves to the for-