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United States we acquire any title to it by confiscation, sale, or other wise, as your own proposition to lease admits.

The property was in charge of its proper custodian, the janitor, who the living in the building when he was expelled by orders eminating from a branch of your Bureau 

This is the usual way in which such buildings are occupied and possessed and the only way that they are held save during the election season. It was in this way the building was held during the active war, from any and every possible kind of occupation in use, after events had caused a temporary suspension of the lecture.

I would respectfully suggest that in all other southern states, the medical colleges have possession of their buildings, and have without objection, been allowed to resume opperations; that the building in question was constructed with special regard to necessities of a Medical College and that no other building in this city, or even in the state, will meet such necessities, while there are many that will acquire equally would, all the purposes of a common school, such as is now length in the building.

In view of these facts, I am instructed  

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