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NARA 93

Clinton Dec. 6th 1867.

Maj. S.S. Sumner
Sub. Comr Freedmans Bureau 
Jackson

Dear Sir: 
I have just received yours of this date and proceed to reply. 

The negro witnesses to whom you refer, were after the investigation of Johnson's case before myself, recognised to appear before the next term of the Circuit Court at Jackson and were then discharged by me. I have advised the bearer that they would be found on the plantation of Maj. Greaves, some eight miles from Clinton, or in that immediate vicinity
 
I cannot conceive why I should have been directed by an order to send them to Jackson as I have no control of, and know nothing of their whereabouts, or movements.

After having been recognised by me and discharged as witnesses, I, of course could no longer exercise any control over them. 

I am very respectfully &c 
Thos H. Clark 
Justice of the Peace 

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Transcription Notes:
---------- Reopened for Editing 2024-02-13 21:50:53 S S Sumner, not Summer