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their portion of the Cotton, This whole amount under the head of trust, and by an agreement with the admstr. of D.H Love, I am authorized to use in the payment of the debt due you, What is to be done in this matter? I have not seen any order authorizing such an interference, the laborers were satisfied with the arrangement to ship all the Cotton and after it was all sold, to account to account to them for ballance after paying what was due the firm, You will remember that I wrote you to keep the account of this firm Cotton distinct in order to make settlement with the laborers, I shall spare no trouble to get the Control of this Cotton, for the purpose it was intended and will write you further
     
In haste
Yours &c
Signed D. M Pendergast