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action in the case and intended to carry my decision out as I considered it a just one, and believed I had full authority to decide such cases, and that [[strikethrough]] they [[/strikethrough]] it was in fact the peculiar province of the Bureau to take cognizance of such cases.

P.G. Young made no protest against my jurisdiction in the case but being dissatisfied with my decision, carried the case to the Civil Authorities, and in defiance of my decision levied on the whole six bales although he well knew that only a part of those six bales belonged to Wilson Carey.  Would it have been right in me to have turned over the [[strikethrough]] ose [[/strikethrough]] hands who owed Mr. Young nothing to the "tender mercies" of the Texas Courts, and let the case be decided months hence while Young was enjoying the hard earned fruits of their labor?  These hands were women and could ill afford the delay and expense attendant on the Courts.

Mr. Young in his petition has conveniently