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Office Sub Asst. Commissioner
Bureau R.F. & A.L.
Greenville Ala. Nov. 26th 1867

Col. A.D. Kinsman 
Sub Asst. Comis. 

Colonel
I have the honor to report to you a case that I feel a deep interest in, and one that will serve as an example for a class of cases that are not in many respects dissimilar. It is one more case added to the long catalogue of troubles which have for a common origin Jealousy. 

Monday morning Polly Knight, an octaroon, entered my office in Company with her aged mother.

She is a woman of pleasing manners, lofty mien, and by her actions, corroborated by reports I have of her, fully entitled to the term lady in its unmeasured acceptation. She had scarcely commenced to tell me her story before her eyes were filled with tears, and her tongue troubled with emotion, for she had never