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I certify that in November last and since, I sold pine wood to the Freedmen's Bureau in the county of Elizabeth City at the price of five dollars, per cord, delivered in Hampton and its vicinity. For wood carried to Slabtown or that vicinity, I know the Bureau has offered to pay six dollars per cord. My neighbor, Mr Wm Phillips I know to have received that price. Sugar Hill, a freedman's settlement, is some distance from Hampton, say a mile and a half, & is in the immediate neighborhood of the once woodland of Mr Joseph Segar, and I am very positive that if the wood were now standing on his farm, it would readily command at least three dollars, on the stump in the woods. I should say that the average price of pine wood in the county is five dollars per cord, if oak wood, a little more. The wood on Mr. Segar's land is worth more on the stump than