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Tuskegee Ala
Feb' 14th 1866
Sir
I wish some information in regard to contracts made with freedmen & approved before Lieut Smith Freedmans Bureau at this place - Should they leave under a Contract & be arrested as vagrants, does that relieve them from the Contract or are they by law required to return to their former employer & fill the Contract unless good cause can be shown why said Contract shall be void
Your early answer as above will oblige
Very Resp Yours obt
Bolin W Starke JP
for Macon County

To Brig Gen Swayne
Montgomery Ala