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To General A. M. Fisk, Assistant Commissioner Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands.

George W. Rice, a citizen of the county of Jackson, State of Alabama, by this his petition, shows: that he is the owner in fee simple of a tract of land, situate in said County of Jackson, and known as the "[[Shumake?]] Reservation," containing six hundred and forty acres more or less. That the same in February 1865, was seized as abandoned by the military authorities of the United States, and so reported to the office of the United States Treasury Agent at Huntsville Alabama, and the same was by said Treasury Agent reported [[be?]] due   Howard, whose given name is unknown to your petitioner, who is now in possession thereof.  Your petitioner on the 14th day of August 1865, before Capt. Tho's Hewlett Captain 189th A. V. Infantry & Provost Marshal at Huntsville Alabama, took the oath of Amnesty prescribed by the President of the United States in his proclamation of May 29th 1865, a copy of which is herewith filed marked (A) and prayed to be taken as part of this petition. Petitioner is not within any of the excepted classes mentioned in said Proclamation