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Barbour County Alabama
Sept 1st 1865

To Brig Genl Wager Swayne
Asst Commissioner
Bureau Refugees, Freedmen &c

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Sir
The undersigned one of the Justices of the Peace in Beat no 6 in Barbour County & state of Alabama, do hereby signify by acceptance of the office as Agent of said Bureau for the administration of Justice in said cases as may come under my Jurisdiction as provided for in section 7 Genl order No 7 as referred to in your order dated at Montgomery Ala August 4 1865 & hereby agree to discharge faithfully the duties thereof- Have the kindness to send me instructions, which you can forward to Eufaula Ala care of J Hardman Justice of the Peace, where I can receive them
Witness my hand on the day and year above written
Jos A Salisbury J.P.