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St Marysville May 25th -67

Lieut Hector Sairs

Sir
Your favor reached me last Court day. I had a private interview with you thereafter & since that time have been endeavoring to obtain all the [[strikethrough]] record [[/strikethrough]] evidence preparatory to answering correctly the various interrogations propounded to me, but finally have to answer most from memory the records having been taken or destroyed.

In answer to your 1st question I was the Collector of Taxes leveed by the Legislature of Virginia for the year 1861; that I was prevented from completing my collections by the Military operations in the County; that believing I could at a subsequent period complete the collections, I settled with the Auditor of the State for the full amount assessed against Stafford County & have his receipt showing this

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