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Freedmen were to send their Cotton to Norwood and to look to him for advances & when sold the proceeds of the Cotton were to be paid to Norwood & Norwood was to pay the freedmen & we were to have nothing to do with the freedmen in the premises. Mr. Norwood then asked for a further advance which he said he would give the freedmen. We paid him Two hundred Dollars in Gold which he divided between the two freedmen. On the first of February 1867, we received from Mr. Norwood (not the freedmen) Thirteen Bales of Cotton marked with his initials DN 8 Bales DSN 5 Bales for sale to his account & wrote to him for the permits to which he answered as per his letter annexed marked A in which he says he received our letter & that he had instructed how this Cotton should be marked in his name showing his control over it. We also hand you a letter dated 12 Feby marked B referring to the permit On the 27 Dec 1866 Mr. Norwood came to our office in Galveston & asked for a further advance on Cotton of Five hundred Dollars stating the two freedmen owed him [[strikethrough]] for [[/strikethrough]] Two hundred Dollars & he would and he would settle with them for Two hundred of the Five hundred Dollars. We paid him the Five hundred Dollars Gold. On the 26th over