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U.S. has acquired title, is the only prosperity within the controls of the "Bureau of freedmen + refugees."
As U.S attorney I shall feel it my duty to give the use of property clearly consfiscable to the Bureau. during the time legal steps are been taken. and shall so direct the Marshal and I will expect from each officer and agent of the Bureau. a full statement of all lands and other property liable to confiscation with the full circumstances of each case.  Kind description of property and the owners or claimant names.

James Q Smith
U.S. Dist Atty