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As Attorney for H.G. Parker I hereby agree to ever exertion to see that the Circular issued this day from Your Office be complied with in every respect.  I personally agree to forward promptly to the parties interested, all money collected by me from Parker for the liquidation of his debts.

Respectfully
(signed)  A.H. Longley

To
1 Lieut S.C. Plummer
Comdg Post Prairie Lea

Parker had no sooner been released than he commenced his same swindling operations again, traveling from County to County, obtaining money from freedmen for purposes to which it was never applied; thus swindling them out of their hard earned savings.  At the expiration of the thirty days, he not making his appearance and not having settled one single debt, I wrote to the Sub Asst. Com'r. at Austin - where I had last heard from him - asking him to arrest him.  I received an answer stating that he had information that Parker was in jail at Bastrop. I immediately wrote to the Sub Asst. Com'r at that place, telling him that if he had not sufficient evidence against him to convict him and send him out of the Country, to inform me and I would