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Selma Alabama
April 17th 1867

Sir
I have the honor to acknowledge yours of the 13th inst with enclosure letter of T F McCarthy and the order of Bvt Maj Genl Pope dated April 10th 1867 and report.
That I have investigated. The case and find that the prisoner was indicted at the fall term of the City Court of Selma, that the case was continued by the state without objection on the part of his counsel, that no term of the court has been held since on account of an act of the last General Assembly, that a term will be held in August next,  that his Counsel's are Mess Petters and Dawson, and Morgan and Lapsley, that they have never known him by the name of McCarthy, but by the name of Hamlin, and he has signed all his letters to them by the latter name, that they had a suit of Habeas Corpeas send out and succeeded in reducing the bail from $10.000 to $4.000 that I have seen the most of his materials witnessed and their statement is satisfactory as to his identity, and also the identity of the money found on his person, that I have seen a dispatch or whats purports to be one from Loyd Bowers stating that Hamlin had no money deposited in the First National Bank of Mobile and also a dispatch of prior date signed Loyd Bowers dated at New Orleans directed to M J A Keith &c stating that Hamlin had deposited $20.000 in the First National Bank of Mobile upon which M J A Keith &c paid Hamlin $10.000 in a check drawn by Hamlin on said Bank for twenty thousand dollars he received.

Transcription Notes:
Edited: lots of misspellings ED law office of Morgan and Lapsley mentioned in books on Selma.