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Be appointed to the position as he is capable of administering and making examples of those parties who regardless of their obligations to the gov, on selling their cotton to speculators who are coming from the city and locating or squatting about on different Plantations To purchase the cotton aforementioned from the freedmen trusting that you will Be kind enough to solicit the governor To send his attention to this matter & Beging your indulgence for trespassing upon your time I have the Respect to be yours Very Truly

Wm F. Dover
Spl. Agt