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Office Sup't R., f. & A. L.
Sub-District Huntsville, Alabama,
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Alabama, having almost every man's pocket empty, & the lands in number of cases are now idle, for want of capital to furnish supplies. And it must be remembered too, that here, our plantations are generally in ruins. Fences, stock, utensils, and in hundreds of cases houses all gone; and the owner has his naked, wasted fields, unenlivened by anything, to render them productive. Under these circumstances the collection of a tax, speedily, [[strike through]] would [[/strikethrough]] must be done by a fi: fa:. And the Counties would scarcely attempt, or