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ing to about $5,500. Col. Montague afterwards was induced for some reason to treat it as abandoned property and he said that he paid to you or to your proper subordinate officer, the proceeds of the property. He afterwards, however, upon a full statement and hearing gave a certificate that the property was not abandoned and that the owners were entitled to the proceeds. 
I am certain that the property was not abandoned: and they lost possession of it by fraud. I do not know the man White but the man Helton is a man of of no property or means whatever and never had any and is of low and bad character. As solicitor of this Circuit I know of his being indicted for larceny.
As the funds went into the bureau of which you are the head in this state I take the liberty of asking as our acting justice that you will advise me in what manner the parties can obtain restitution of the proceeds of their property.
Reserving former expressions of esteem
I am Very Respectfully,
James Bond