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New. Port. Catract County NC
April. 8th 1866.

General. Ruger. Sir the object of my Writing to you is to ask Justice only Justice. on the 1th day of July 1865. I Bought at Publick auction at Morehead City N.C. one 1 mule Branded J C and recived a right to hold or Transfer from W.H. Barton Capt and AQM and hired Mr. Daniel. Perry of Jones County to feed it for me until this Spring and in about one month from that date he Sold the mule and appropriated the money to his own use I Wrote to Mr Perry about the 14th of December about the mule and Shortly after that time I Saw him myself and he told me that he had sold the mule and When I spoke about the money for it he told me he had done enough for me to keep the money and on the 12th of March 1866 I applied to the Freedmans Bureau at Kinston NC for redress and after much delay Mr Perry appeared Before the Bureau and we mett and as I had a horse and a mule the Bureau decided that I could well afford to lose the mule as I had a horse and that Sir was the only cause that they could why I could not recover my mule or the money for it besides I had loaned mr perry thirty five (35) dollars cash Which he told me