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with them. Mr. Longstreet, the agent, I am informed has assumed numerous outstanding claims, from different parties against the place, and has presented a number of them as a set off for the surplus proceeds of the crop, after settling the claim of Longstreet & Co. Among other things they charge the overseers wages the cost of putting up a new screw for the cotton prep, the expenses of a trip to Holly Springs, for the purpose of procuring Gen. Ord's approval to the assignment, and a number of other claims of like character, thereby showing a determination to defraud the laborers of their just dues, as
under existing orders the laborer, when