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it. & says he did not go to town with the rest because he knew nothing of the Registrars being there.
They testified that they did not know of the Board of Registrars having been at Benton, until Mr. Huggins visited the plantation and informed them. He told them they must go to Yazoo City and register there when the Board met, and that he would send them word when to go. They heard nothing further of the matter until July 21st when Virgil Mitchell, one of the hands on the place, met a white man on the road, who told him there was to be a speaking and a barbecue in Yazoo City on the following day, that all freedmen must go