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Hope was kept, by one of the pardners in the Plantation on which Hope was employed and the other Freedmen on the same place stated to me that they were given orders to the same store and that articles that the purchased overcharged at more than they told them they were at the time they bought them they spoke of tobaco in particular they would get a plug of tobacco for Fourty cents and when they came to settle for it, they were charged Sixty cents.  I was not present at the time of the trial of the warrent befor the Justice, and do not know upon what testimony he was commited to jail on.  I will also call your attention to another case  About the last of June or about the 1st of July 1866. Two young men Bunk Cooksey and Bob Chalk, entered a cow yard on the permeases of Mr Glass and shot a Freedmen named Peter Calbert.  Employed by Glass. This was done without any provocation on the part of the Freedman.  Mr Glass took the Freedman into his house and kept him there untill he had recovered from the wound.  When Peter got able to go to work Mr Glass sent with his team to the woods to collect and haul to the house a load of wood.  While in the woods Cooksey passed through the woods and