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Greenville Ala
August 24th 1865

Genl W Swayne
Asst. Comr Bureau
of Freedmen Reffugees &c

Sir
I hereby inform you that I accept the appointment confered by you upon me as one of the justices of the Peace for the State to take jurisdiction of cases between negroes & negroes and between negroes & whites &c & will try & discharge my duty faithfully as such. 

Very Respectfully
Your Obd Servt
TB Otts
Justice of the Peace 
Dist No 13 Butler
County Ala