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county or city? Any of these would service me out of any part of the money due me, and they could attend to the matter as well and as promptly as your agent. If this cannot be done, why can not your agent come to this place? There are very many here and near here who are awaiting to receive their money. probably quite a many if  not more than these are will be at Bowling Green. Besides it is as easy of a trip as Bowling Green, it being on the Rail Road leading from Nashville Tenn to Evansville Ind. Now duet [due] in part as the poor colored people here in requiring them to go to Bowling Green a strange place to many of them and where they would be in for more danger of being cheated out of their money than here. and if you can not make the change for all please do so for me.

Respectfully
Rose her x mark Boyd (colored)

Read to and signed by the said Rose Boyd before me the 28 April 1873
B Sandy Judge Hopkinsville City Co.