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ant, or beckoned to him, as I thought, to step one side
with him. They stepped aside, and as they went a few
paces together, the complainant handed the defendant
a letter. Defendant then went a few steps further by him-
self, and appeared to be reading the letter. Then the Defen-
dant came back and sat down near complainant, myself
and others, and asked, "What does this mean? What do you
intend to do?" Then the complainant said, That will
tell you what I intend to do, pointing to the letter. Then,
Defendant rose up, and said, to the company, as I
thought this is the day that I expected to come into
possession of the negroes, or money, one; but it seems
that I am to get neither, now. I know nothing further
about the possession of said negroes by the defendant,
or any other person.

V. 5. To the fifth Interrogatory, he says:
Ans. I know nothing more than I have stated, ex-
cept that defendant told me that he had a separate bill
of sale for one of the negroes, a boy, and that he had ad-
vanced money to redeem the boy from the officer. -
He told me that the negro was a likely boy, and I think he
said he was about eighteen years old. This conversation
took place at defendant's house in February 1845, the same
time mentioned in answer to the fourth Interrogatory.

VI. 6. To the sixth Interrogatory, he says:
Ans- I cannot give any satisfactory answer to
that question. - It is usual to hire out slaves publicly
on the first day of January; this is the most usual
time for hiring out negroes, in Pickens County, as
is usual for the term of hired slaves to end on the 25th
of December. The reason of this term ending at the