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Montgomery, Alabama, December 23rd, 1867.
Representation's having been made to the Head Quarters of Major General Wager Swayne, that wages are due to Freedmen on the plantation in Sumter County cultivated this year by Cecil, Bevill & Lane; and the execution of civil process on the crops and other property on said plantation, and the removal of any of said property, having been forbidden by Maj. C. W. Pierce, until any amounts one said freedmen, shall be paid; and General Swayne having consented to forbid any military interference in respect to said process, or property, and to order any that may have been removed by Major Pierce, or by his authority or permission to be restored, on the execution of this guaranty: Now in consideration of the promises, the undersigned hereby guarantee the payment of any sum or sums, which shall be found justly due to any of the freedmen on said plantation for services of making crops on said plantation during the present year, [[strikethrough]] which [[/strikethrough]] upon any investigation of the state of accounts,