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and gather the crops &[[strikethrough]]d[[strikethrough]] would feed and cloth them and furnish a Physician & medicine until Christmas to attend to any sickness they might have, the commander of the post advised them to take it saying the crop was made & they could start a new Year without being in debt they agreed to do so and the Provost Marshall Ratified the same he acting then as Bureau he remarked it was [[never]] to have a writen contract as he was present & in fact I believe for the finish piece of a Year Contracts need scarcely writen at all, In the face of the Year Houstons Regiment was disbanded & a new Provost Marshall appointed who stoped my cotton at [[Allegtoa]]but Mayor Houston was in Cloumbus & gave in his evidence as above stated and the Provost Marchall discharged the cotton & I sent it on to Market

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