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Office Sub Asst Commissioner
Sub District of So Ca
Bureau of R.F. and A.L 

Laurensville So Ca September 27th 1868

Brevet Maj H Heide 
A.A.A. General 
Bureau of R.F. and A.L.
Columbia So. Ca. 

Sir: 
In compliance with a communication dated Bethney Predell Co North Carolina April 18th 1868, and, an endorsement on said communication, dated Hd Qrs Asst Commissioner, August 24th 1868 Columbia So.Ca. directing me to collect, if possible, the sum of Forty Four 70/100 Dollars (44 70/100) from Math Kennedy of this place, and forward said amount through Govt Hd Qrs to Ben Brinnis (freedman) of North Carolina. 

I have the honor to enclose herewith the above specific amount. Will you please return receipt as soon as practicable.

This above amount was collected, after some correspondence, and a manifest reluctance on the part of Mr. Kennedy to comply with the demand . but when I informed him that the law defined this case as a breach of trust and not a mere debt, he complied immediately but remarked at the time that he had been called on a number of times, and that he never intended to pay one cent. This disposition I regret to say appears to