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give him an opportunity of a fair and impartial hearing. He can make full and ample proof, by persons of unquestionable good character, of the tenth of all that is hereinbefore set forth, and if human testimony is reliable he will be able to prove that the horse in controversy is not the horse Nicholson pretends to have owned and to have lost. 
§16. He is a poor man, who labors for a support, he is not able to incur heavy expense, and if consistent with the usages of the Department and not incompatible with Military Authority, he would respectfully request some Judicial officer of the section of the State may be commissioned to take the proof in the case and certify to General Swayne for examination, and final decision, if however it may be his pleasure to grant an order for the question to be litigated in the State Court he will be content. 
Respectfully
Cooper & Reeves
Attys for Sedberry

The State of Alabama }
Cherokee County } 
Before mrs Lemuel J. Standifer, Judge of Probate for said County came S.H. Sedberry who being sworn says on oath that the facts set forth in the foregoing statement, so fat as stated upon his personal knowledge are true & he believes the whole of said statements to be true. Paragraphs 1, 2, 3, and so much of 4 as precedes the possession of Sedberry is from information 
SH Sedberry
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 23d day of Dec 1867. 
Lemuel J. Standifer
Judge of Probate