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Office Sub-Assistant Commissioner. 
Bureau Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands
Sub-District of MONTGOMERY,

Montgomery, Ala,. July 20th 1867.

Col. O.D. Kinsman
Sub. Asst. Comr. 
Sir. 
These Freedmen and Mr. Dreyspring presented a contract at this office last Spring for approval. Preferred to approve it and told the Freedmen it was an unfair contract. Mr Dreyspring then went to your Office with the contract and you put an endorsement on it to the same effect, not paying any attention to what I told them, at your endorsement the Freedmen went on and worked for Dreyspring. Dreyspring was here yesterday and told me he had lost three mules on the place and could not furnish any more, he will not settle with the hands, and I told them so before they went to you, and that then