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Waco March 30th/67

Dear Sir

Your favor of the 27th inst. has just reached me, and it did so, after I was on my horse starting to the spring sessions of the Upper County Courts, - hence I have but a moment to reply.

I am fully posted in the matter about which you write. I crossed a few interrogatories sometime since of certain men,- friends of the parties claiming against the Government.

This was done at the instance of one Capt Smith, who as "Treasury Agent," at one time siezed the property, or a part thereof, as Government property