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fitures, draw backs and deductions provided expressly for by the very terms of it. That during the year and after its end, he made payments in money and otherwise to said freedmen, amounting to the sum of $355.60, according to their own admission, they also admitting $15.40 was to be deducted for last time, the two making $371.00, and leaving one, in their opinion, a balance of $249.00 while the undersigned insisted that he had paid them more money, and that they were bound to allow a much larger sum for failure to perform their contract and duty, and disregard and neglect of both, and that the sums he had paid, and the deductions he was entitled to exceeded the sum named in the contract referred to - That he so believing, refused to pay them any more money, and so the matter would have perhaps rested but for the interference of a third party
The undersigned believes from what he has heard that this matter was presented to the Freedman's Bureau at Jackson, by the said John Vickus early in this year, but from some cause perhaps the interference of the third party referred to, it was thought best to try the civil court first, and in the spring of this year, a suit was brought against him, by the said John Vickus,