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Bureau of Refugees Freedmen & Abandoned Lands Head Quarters Assistant Commissioner State North Carolina Raleigh N.C. October 25" 1866. [[vertical line drawn down left margin]] [[written to left of large curly bracket]]Special Order [[underline]]No. 135.[[/underline]] [[/written to left of large curly bracket]] II II II _____ Par I Special Order No 125. C. S. from these Head Qrs. are hereby modified. The property claimed by [[underline]]Isaac C Meekins[[/underline]] and others, as heirs to the estate of [[underline]]Esther Meekins[[/underline]], deceased, on Roanoke Island, will be restored to them, with the understanding that the [[underline]]U. S. Government[[/underline]] retain possession of and remove of advisable such buildings erected upon that property , by the said U.S. Govern't. and the National Freedmen Relief Association of New York. [[diagonal line drawn across page from lower right vertical line to upper left, just below text]] By Command of [[double underline]]Bvt. Maj Gen. Robinson[[/double underline]] Jacob F Chur Capt and A. A. A. Gen'l [[footnote]]extra Copy H Hillebrandt Capt. V.R.C.[[/footnote]]