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Natchez Mississippi 9th
September 1866

To
Major Geo. D Reynolds
Acting Assist. Commissioner
Bureau of Freedmen
Southern District of Miss

The Subscribers, Frederick A. W. Davis, Breevort Butler and Charles Meeks, all loyal and resident citizens of Natchez respectfully represent that they are and for many years last past have been the owners, in equal shares, of that certain Brick building and its appurtenances, known as the "Agricultural Bank". on the southwestern corner of Main and Commerce Streets, in the city of Natchez.

That from sometime in December 1863 said building and appurtenances and furniture and affects there in, have been in the use and possession of the United States Authorities, to wit the Treasury Department there of, until recently, when by the transfer of the business &c, of said Department to the Freedmen's Bureau, the same came into the possession of the latter

That said property was never in any sense either abandoned or deserted, or confiscable that your applicants were in the quiet and undisturbed possession thereof when dispossessed as aforesaid, that they never voluntarily left it, have always remained at home at their usual places

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