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family to a plantation belonging to his wife, and situate about four miles from the Court-House in Natchez and about two miles beyond the picketline of this post.

Your Petitioner further represents that he regularly received the rent for said premises from his said lessees until the 1st day of November 1864. When Mr. J. F. Richardson, then Asst. Spl. Agent. Treas'y Dept for the District of Natchez. ordered the lessees and tenants of your Petitioner's said property, to pay the rent for the same to him, as such agent; since which time the said Richardson. Treasury Agent as aforesaid, and his successors in office, have continually up to the present time, controlled said property, and received the entire rent therefor, to the amount of $140.00 per month as your petitioner believes.

Your Petitioner is informed and believed that his said house was seized and is held as "abandoned property", on account of certain representations made to said Treas'y Agent by a personal enemy to your Petitioner, that your Petitioner had gone beyond the Federal lines for the purpose of joining the Confederate Army, and that he had so joined - which representations were utterly and wholly false. 

Your Petitioner further represents that he never abandoned said property that he has never voluntarily been absent therefrom and engaged, either in arms of otherwise, in aiding or encouraging the

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