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and promised to pay his wife for her services forty dollars ($40) and her food and clothing, says she has received the clothing but no money.
I wrote to Clemens Taylor informing him, suit would be commenst against him unless this debt was immediately payed, which has been done.

Office Sub Asst Comr
Tupelo Miss. Oct. 4th 1867
Freedman Washington Stovall complains that his son-in-law Henderson Kemp sent to his house last spring his wife and four children, stating at the time he was coming himself to join said Stovall in making a crop, but has failed to make his appearance, and he (Stovall) has been compelled to maintain the wife and children all the season, being an old man 72 years of age he is not able to support them together with his own children. Applies to the Bureau for assistance to compell Kemp to support his wife and children. States that Kemp is somewhere in the vicinity of Aberdeen. 
Case referred to Major Stuart Oldridge
Sub Asst. Comr, Sub Dist Aberdeen Miss