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I received orders from Gen'l Kiddoo to attend to all business that was brought before me but the Fisher case of which I took charge by Gen'l Kiddoos's direction and in compliance with the circular No 23 was referred back to the Sub-Asst Com'r at Huntsville.  I therefore feel a delicacy in acting on these complaints myself I will be sustained by you in my action.  Planters in some of the above named Counties have commenced their old practice of last year, that of removing negroes off their plantations after the crop is laid by, whipping them or refusing to feed them, some even go so far as to kill freedmen for the purpose of scaring others from their plantations, and they invariably succeed.  I have commenced taking affadavits in all these cases.  I have hesitated to enforce or use Circular No 23 thinking that planters would take warning by the few individual lots of Cotton which I have stopped here, but complaints of nonpayment of freedmen, or cotton being shipped without division become more numerous, and as the freedmen do not know the marks on their cotton I feel compelled to