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Enclosure 1

Goldsboro, N.C. May 17 1866

A report made by Generals Steedman and Fullerton to the Secretary of War on the conduct of the Officers of the Freedmen's Bureau ascribes to me the following assertion:
Mr. Lane states that the enterprize (viz. The cultivation of 250 acres bottom] land hired from me by Messrs Brooks and Glavis) failed after the freedmen had worked over two months; they then left, Brooks and Glavis having failed to pay them according to contract.

In justice to Messrs Brooks and Glavis I am bound to state that I never made this statement. Mr. Brooks as well as myself did our very best to procure laborers, and so did Captain Glavis after he saw the fruitlessness of our efforts, but we were not able to get hands enough to work the farm and hence the enterprize after much fruitless pain and expense had to be abandoned.

A similar statement I made to Generals Steedman and Fullerton in writing.

Mr. Lane being out of town to-day the subjoined testimony is forwarded: