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outside of this District entirely.  I thought I would refer the matter direct to you, and request that Robert L. Houston the agent that signed these certificates and who is now in Charleston be arrested and sent to Hilton Head for trial for defrauding the Freedpeople. The certificates of which I send copies belong to one man and represent Nineteen Hundred pounds of Cotton: and judging from the number that have appeared to me in regard to their certificates I am satisfied that these are not one tenth part of what is held by parties in my immediate vicinity.

Very Respectfully
Your Abt. Servt.
John B.  Dennis

Agt: B.R.F & A.L.