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To add to the aggravation of this matter, the cotton that I attached in Selma was shipped to an own uncle of the children, thier Father's Brother, who boasted to me that he would up levy the cotton & could use the money as long as he pleased. This of course arises from the delay of our civic processes.

Before I can hear from you the crops [[strikethrough]] property [[/strikethrough]] may be moved from the plantation and I would be glad you would give me an order to take it wherever found & if sold to have the Parties arrested and made to disgorge or give me an order to satisfy the claim out of the property of the securities of the sheriff of Hall County.-

At the same I would be glad you would give me an order for the proceeds of the cotton attached in Selma if the party there has uplevied and sold it. I think this case justifies Military interference especially as the children have nothing to subsist upon and the delay of civil Law will