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All these freedpeople were absent from the place, and I was unable to verify the accounts by enumerating the articles over to them. I examined the accounts carefully and find the prices charged for provisions, to be proper ones. I am unable to say whether or not they received all that is charged to them further than taking the accounts as evidence under the oath of Whetzell and Dukes.  By order of Dr McHenry Agent, the cotton fodder and rice straw were turned in by the freedmen as part payment of their account, and the provisions were turned over to the freedmen, which according to Whetzell accounts, leaves the freedmen in debt to him, for provisions furnished. $214.28, and which they refuse to pay, on the ground that Dr McHenry made is proper settlement. Mr Whetzell claims that this money should be paid to him, either in labor or money.
The division and settlement is so obscure, there being no schedule of division, that I respectfully