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the freedman should be paid at the rate of 75 dollars per month in coin, and granted the employers until today at 3 o'clock at which time to pay it.  On the trial and before and since, the employers have tendered or offered to tender the crops at the rate of $50 per month, which offer has been uniformly refused.  I was consulted in the case as an attorney and advised the employers that Col De Gress had no power to try a litigated and disputed point like that and to compell them to pay the money, I therefore advised them to obey the orders of the Col to appear before him today, which they did with myself, and they offered to pay the $50 per month, which was refused.  Col De Gress then stated to me that he should seize