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the solicitor (Mr William Wieden) Madison County state of Alabama fire Ins. to bring suit against the said county as the law requires on each and every application he has refused point blank to do so saying the first time it was the law, but the law was not worth a damn, and I could not recover anything the second time he said he would not do it, and bear the responsibility of collecting money from the county for acts done by Disguised men that I must get some one or two lawyers to bring the suit, that they must write the papers, he would neither write them nor plead the case. the same third and fourth time and again on this 13th day of September 1869.I called on him asking whether he would bring suit, he replied he would not do it, the law did not require him to do it that if I had been killed the law required him to bring it for my widow, but not for me.

Prior Turner his X mark

John H Wager
Justin Konaghe

At the same time and place personally appeared before me this 13th day of September

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