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Portland Ala: June 2nd 1867
Major: Genl: Swayne
Montgomery 
Ala:

Sir;
Seeing your published order and proclamation stating your determination to administer justice in cases when the law failed. I crave your interference in my case against James Harrison of Lownds County. He (Harrison) is a large planter in this (Dallas) county as well as Lownds. He is indebted to me in the sum nearly Six Hundred dollars for Services rendered on his plantation (near me) in the practice of Medicine. He forced his Freedmen to pay their