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employed for stated wages was entitled to his hire, in preference to all other claims.

I sent a com'n to Beck & Fuller requesting them to remit the amount in their hands to this office, in order that it might be used in the partial settlement of the freedmen's claims.
(I would respectfully call your attention to the copy enclosed, with their reply thereto.) in which they request that the order be withdrawn, as a suit is now pending between Longstreet & Co. & Smith & Roberts for the possession thereof.

I have no hesitation in saying that this money should be distributed among the freedmen whose labor