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or will be sold by the Sheriff and in the present condition of the country it will not bring me half its value. All the property which your petitioner owns is liable to pay this debt, and he is paying it as fast as he can having delivered what cotton he had ginned and packed, and intending to deliver the balance as soon as he can get the same gathered ginned and packed -

Your Petitioner respectfully represents to the General Commanding that the late convention held at Montgomery Alabama passed an ordinance to stay Collection of Debts-, of which the following in a copy. "Be it ordained by the People of Alabama in Convention Assembled, that when any unit of execution venditioni exponas, or other legal process requiring the sale of Property shall be, or has been issued from any court of this state, it is made the duty of the officer to whom delivered for collection to return the said writ or other process to the proper court with his endorsement thereon "Returned by operation of Law" dated and signed by him. This ordinance to remain in full force until the 1st day of January 1869: Provided this ordinance shall not apply to judgements in favor of laborers and mechanics for services rendered since July 21st 1863.

Your Petitioner further represents that the said debt was not for the services of laborers or mechanics

Transcription Notes:
At the end it looks like 1863 but could be 1868.