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NARA 672

Copy,
Macon Miss
Nov 15th/67

Maj Geo. S. Smith,
Agent of Freedmans Bureau,

Sir,

In assuming authority to control crops that have been grown by labor employed by me, you have so disorganized and demoralized that labor, as to render all efforts, by me, to use it for the ingathering of the balance of my crops useless. You have in an adress that you delivered to them, induced them to believe that their wages, are to be paid them, regardless of other claims and regardless of the terms imposed upon them by their written contract and agreement.
 
This must expose myself and my other creditors to serious losses unless you will undertake to controle these laborers, and enforce such orders as may-be necessary to insure the spedy gathering of the crops. There are seventy six hands upon the plantation and only about eighty bales of cotton to be picked. 

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