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celebrated seed, which I have directed sent to Magnolia & hope it will have a fair experiment. I would plant it carefully & sparingly, & off to itself on the best part of the place, & have great attention given to it.
If you want the pair of pigs I saved for you let me know. Write soon you are getting on yrs Samo S Boyd
We have deposited one thousand dollars with Bratton & Co to your credit, collected of P N Montgomery & this is all that will come this season M&B
You can get a first rate article of oil for plantation use & machinery at Slark, Day, Stauffer & Co New Orleans for 60 cents, They keep a constant supply.
Armfield wishes your sanction to paying our fees in the Pease controversy. We charged one thousand dollars W&Miles rec'd 2500$. Please give us your authority.
{J J Boyd 31 March 1845}
R. C. Ballard Esq
Care C Steele
Warrenton
Be it known that we the undersigned stockholders in the Commercial Bank of Manchester, Do hereby contribute and appoint Jefferson I Hughes our true and lawful proxy to vote for us and in our name at the next election for Directors of said Bank the number of votes to which we are entitled as stockholders aforesaid. And we hereby agree to be bound by the vote thus cast for [eleven?] directors in said bank to serve for one year from the 2nd Monday of April next as fully as if given by ourselves in our own proper persons. Given under our hands & seals this ___ day of March AD 1845. Witness
Ballard (seal) Hoggartt (seal) Hoggartt (seal) Armfield (seal) Franklin (seal)