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D. H. BINGHAM,
REGISTER.

Register's Office in Bankruptcy,
Athens, Alabama, Aug 17 1867.

Genl J. B. Callis
Dear Sir,
Your favor of 14th inst came to hand this morning - containing copy of order to Judge of Probate. I do not know what was done with the case last monday - but have requested Mr Danforth to find out and inform you. Mr Torrentine however, as Administrator has taken possession of the personal property of the testator, which he devised to a colored woman named Elsie, and which was in her custody - and some of which, consisting of household & kitchen furniture, she, it occurs to me, she ought to have the use of - I have understood from report, that the intention is to deforce  those colored people of all the property devised to them under the will. Burrell Houston came to me again to day and informed me that he had been at work on his crop - for a week - but that Dan Houston had refused to supply him with rations and he had borrowed as long as he could - that this morning when he caught his horse to go to work, Dan ordered him to let the horse alone and ordered him off - & he had come to me as you had told him - I gave him $5.00 to buy him provisions and rent horse back to