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At a regular Term of the Probate Court of Hinds County begun and held at the Court House thereof in the Town of Raymond on the first Monday of December 1865 The following order among others was made at said term

In the Matter of the Estate of John F Watson Senr decsd

On petition of Joseph E Davis Administrater of Said Estate for Compromise of a Matter of difficulty in relation to corn raised on the land of said deceased Said difficulty [[strikethrough]] causing [[/strikethrough]] having been C[[?]] by the United States Military Authorities It is Ordered by the Court under the existing State of the Country that fair Administrater Compromise with Said Authorities by allowing them to take One half of the Corn on the Home place and One third of the Corn on the Whitaker place and that he proceed with the Sale of the balance of the Corn on the above named places as ordered at a former time of this Court & by the terms prescribed by said order 

Transcription Notes:
"decsd" for "deceased"