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Georgia 
Spalding County

Jas S Boynton Sworn says that some two weeks ago Marsh H Mathews said in my presence that he was the agent of J Clark Swayze in getting up hands to go west and that Swayze paid him good wages and making his speeches or talks to the colored people he was very careful not to say anything except what had been told him by Mr Swayze and I understood from his remarks that all the inducements which he held out to the freedpeople was such as had been authorized by said Swayze &c

Jas S Boynton

Sworn to before me Decem 5th 1866
E.M.L. Ehlers
Bvt Col & ASA Com'r