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to levy on the same at the time of at the time of seizure I was absent at Friars Point on business connected with the Bureau.

I called on the Sheriff on my return and enquired of him if the laborers had been satisfied for this labor performed for the year he stated that Dr Williams was not on the plantation but that the Landlord Mr High assured him that nothing was due to the laborers that they were all paid. I took no further notice of the matter untill [[until]] the morning of the sale when Mr Weir the agent and Bookkeeper of Dr Williams appeared and states to me that the laborers were unpaid and that they were about to defrauded them out of there [[their]] just dues I proceeded at once to the Court house where the Sheriff was then in the act of selling of the property levied on and ordered him to desist from selling until the laborers claims were satisfied which he done. At the same time I notified High, Dr Williams & the laborers to meet at my office in Austin where the matter would be settled by arbitration under the orders then excisting [[existing]], at the appointed day the [[they]] all appeared Dr Williams by his agent Mr Weir High in person and also the laborers in person High and Mr Weir choosed their arbitrator in the person of B W Wesson the laborers choose W H Bounds as theirs and those two arbitrators choose J W Crowley all gentlemen of good standing and character in this place and of undoubted 

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