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and corn, so as to save the laborers. He informed me that as the laws were placed before the present labor system existed it would be difficult in this case. "For," he said, each laborer would have to give a bond which the officers would make so exorbitant they could not give it, and in other cases when they could give bond they must await a long litigation. 

I thus wrote to Mr Goldsmith that the remaining Corn & cotton must be divided

I am, Colonel,
Very Respectfully
Your obd't. Serv't.
jno. A. Hart.
Act. Sub Ass't. Com'r