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thorities are informed of the facts of the case, and of the services which have been rendered by him for more than two years. Judge Cook was a Justice of the Peace at the time of the collapse of the S. confederacy, and was retained in office under the orders and proclamation of Gov. Parsons and acted as Agent of the Fd. Bureau from that date to the present time In addition to this on the 2d April 1866, he was by order of Genl. Swayne in a written order to him, appointed Agent of the Bureau for this, (Lowndes) county. 
Now for the Services that he has rendered. By reference to the last census of this county taken under order of the state in the Spring of 1866, it will be found that there were seventeen thousand (17000) negroes and upwards in the county. Now consider that every complaint that a negro had to make, and every