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B.R.F. & A.L. (R. 52) Jan. 12/67.

Galveston, Texas.
Jan. 12. 1867.

Ruttkay, A. & Co.
 
State they have bought 76 Bales of Cotton of 
Mann & McMorris and advanced $2500 on the same. Mann & McMorris having failed a Mr. Underwood claiming the cotton and for fear of being a loser, as a last resort had it seized by the Bureau under the plea that the freedmen have an interest in said cotton. 

Ask that the cotton.