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3rd. That I do not think any Freedmen should remain, except those who shall comply with my terms of tenancy, as they have the privilege of going elsewhere, and farther that when said communication of February 25th, 1867, was shown me on the 9th inst, I informed Capt. Massey, that I would reduce my terms to $10.00, and firewood included, and that my assurance to the Bureau, made last fall, that those who promptly paid their arrearages of rent, I considered only such, as paid by the 1st January (1867) which promise, if I am correctly informed is not binding, as Genl Sewell said while in Yorktown, that I was relieved from the same. 
4th. I believe, that the Freedmen to rent land without privilege of getting firewood, will lead to their depredating and trespassing on lands for firewood, without paying for the same, and also, lead to many injurious results. In view of the foregoing, which as I understand and believe to be the facts, I respectfully protest against the terms for renting my lands, as prescribed by the Bureau, in said communication of February 25th, 1867, and ask that they be modified, for each tenant to pay me $10.00, for one and a quarter acre of land, as residence, and firewood included, otherwise I prefer such