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Head-Quarters Sub-District of Demopolis.
Demopolis. Ala., April 19th 1867

Maj. Gen. Wager Swayne
Com. Dist of Alabama
Montgomery Ala.

General.
On the 2nd of January lass I reported to you the case of a large number of freedmen vs. the estate of the late B. H. Ridgeway of Greene Co Ala.

I have just returned from a trip up in Greene and learn that the estate owes about three thousand dollars to one hundred freedmen and their families for labor performed last year, that the estate is insolvent and will not pay more than 10 cts on the dollar and will not be settled for a year to come.

In December lass the Administrator F. M. Kurksey, was notified that the freedmen held a Lien upon the crop which would be held accountable for 
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