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[[stamp]] THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE UNITED STATES [[/stamp]]

Huntsville Ala 26 Sept 1865

Received of George P Beirne

One hundred and thirty Dollars for rent of [[strikethrough]] his [[/strikethrough]] a dwelling in Huntsville Ala to Sepr 30th 1865; paid by him under compulsion, He protesting against said requisition of rent, upon the ground that [[strikethrough]] his [[/strikethrough]] the property aforesaid has never been abandoned. That the Freedman Bureau has no claim whatever upon it. That it has never been in its possession and that consequently the Government or rather the Said Bureau has no legal right to require of him the payment of Said rent & which I bind myself to refund to him upon receiving [[strikethrough]] information that the Government does not require of him the payment of the Same [[/strikethrough]] or come from other Source to do so.

T.M. Goodfellow
Chap 101 U.S.C.I.
Supt R.F.&.A. Lands
Sub Dist Huntsville