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April the 5 1866 freedmans buro Montgomery Ala philip smith has decided with them as long as he can will that goverment be so pleased to do something to help him to feed them he has a large family to feed and no one to help him and he wish ask help from the Comesary and governent also he has also started a nice little farm and he wishs for the govement let him have feed for his stock Forty bushels of Corn and he is wiling to return five hundred pounds of Coton just as soon as he can geather the Crop hes has a nice Crop on han but is not Able to cary it father with out help from som one the White will not cred us for any thing and we are not able to pay for it now at present time. We labor for them and they will not pay us for our labor and our race will to ruin if some one dont help us