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they (your petitioners) had concluded to let them return if they desired so to do, if not to remain where they were and that said freedmen then and there of their of their own free will and accord left said Beal and went to your petitioners.

Petitioners state that said Col Star demanded them to pay the sum of one thousand dollars, which they refused to do, whereupon said Col Star ordered them to the county Jail where they were kept in close confinement for about ten days, and petitioners fearing serious damage to their health agreed to pay, and did pay to Col Star the sum of one thousand dollars as aforesaid, which was about the 1rst of November 1867. 

Wherefore your petitioners pray that proper steps may be taken to investigate this matter, and that justice may be done in the premises, 

Penn & Burke 
Attys.