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Gainsville Alabama
April 8th 1866

Maj Gen Wager Swayne,
Asst Com" Freedman's Bureau
Montgomery Ala.

Genl,
In January last my duplicate contracts with my Freedmen were submitted to and approved by Mr. Bennett Thomas, a Justice of the Peace for this District and Ex officio  Agent of the Freedmen's Bureau. Mr. L Godfrey, recently appointed the sub agent of your bureau for this District informed me that he is ordered to revise & examine all contracts heretofore been approved by Justices of the Peace.  As this is a matter which interests all the planters of this vicinity, I have taken the liberty of requesting your decisions, whether it is now necessary for the afore mentioned contracts to be reapproved by the Sub Agent.
Very Respectfully
Your Obdt Svt 
J. B. Grayson

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