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OFFICE MILITARY COMMISSIONER, First Division, 7th Bureau, Sub-District, Lynchburg, Va., Novr 18 1867 Bvt. Brig Genl. O Brown Asst. Commr. Dist of Va General: I have the honor to report that Richard Hubbard Cold made complaint to me that in company with nine other freedmen he cropped last year with one J W Fore of Campbell Co, for one fourth of the crop, & that out of a large yield of corn & tobacco he received but five blls of corn, no account or division being rendered of the tobacco. At the close of the year, Fore warranted Hubbard, for forty five & 88/100 dolls, the value of provisions &c furnished Hubbards family during the year; also for a square which Hubbard owned & Fore claimed - valued at one & 75/100 dolls. A judgment was given Fore & Hubbards undivided interest in the tobacco crop was sold, under an execution in Feby last to satisfy said judgment The tobacco brot Twenty five dolls & Mr Fore was the purchaser. The statement as above was sustained by the evidence. Hubbards interest in the tobacco crop as per a/c sales of the merchant who sold it, amounted, with sums he had paid on a/c of the judgment standing against him (without $25) to eighty four & 95/100 dolls - deducting from this his undisputed indebtedness to Fore left a balance of Thirty Nine & 7/100 dolls for which I gave judgment with costs, on all the suits - amounting to twenty
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