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Office Sub. Asst Com B.R.F and A. L.
Sub dist of Mobile
Mobile Ala June 28th 1867

J. C. Heffer
Montgomery
"Ala"

Dear Sir

I am informed by Mr Griffin that you have written him to ask whether the papers relating to the claim of Geo Fears (Colored) against the Freedmen's Bureau are not on file in my Office. I therefore take this method of informing you that they are not and have never been in my office I would also respectfully State what I know about the Fears Claims. Geo Fears is a worthy and respectable Freedman in this city. He was employed originally by Col. Harmount, a Bureau officer, to act as Sexton of the Bureau or to do the business of a Sexton under direction of the Bureau. Fears says the arrangement was by verbal contract, but whatever its nature, it was continued by successive officers. They gave orders on him for the burial of Freedman and the making of coffins, but they seem to have taken no pains to have the bills paid. Fears went on until he was about insolvent and there was owing to him about fifteen hundred dollars, a part of which he had raised by a mortgage on a little property owned by him constituting his homestead. He is now threatened by foreclosure.

This is his claim. It was Sent on to Montgomery over a year ago with the Memorandum orders for Harmount.