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Demopolis August 29th 1865
Genl Swayne
Montgomery
Ala

Dear Sir,

As I am a Justice of the Peace for the Demopolis Beat in Marengo County, Ala, I take this opportunity of writing to you to inform you that I am willing to accept the appointment tendered by you in your order of the 4th Just, viz to receive the testimony of freedmen or negroes in a "all difficulties arriving between the negroes themselves or between negroes and whites"

Yours respectfully
E A Taylor
Justice of the Peace for Marengo County