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impressed from the said Owners, by the Confederate authorities and under their protest. That the said Trustees have repeatedly applied for and set  up their claim to the said property, both to the Confederate authorities before and at the surrender and to the United States authorities at and several times since the surrender. and even had it been abandoned property, all of the Trustees who were excepted by the President's proclamation of 29 May last have since been pardoned-
3d The Confederate States never claimed title to the land or lots upon which the building are and it is presumed the United States does not - and under the laws of Alabama, buildings added to property attached to the Freehold become the property of the owners of the soil-
4th That the Confederate states authority impressed the said property in the summer of 1862 and the Trustees have never received any compensation for the use and occupation there of since that time. That the United States authorities forceably took the possession of all the buildings & lots in May 1865 and have held and used them ever since without paying any rent, altho repeatedly [[strikethrough]] applied for [[/strikethrough]] applications for the possession and compensation has been made. That the original buildings and lots would have rented at the sum of seventy-five Dollars per month at least. and [[strikethrough]] that [[/strikethrough]] lastly that we have no other property or means by which we could raise the money to pay for the buildings, even if we thought it right to do so, and as the object of the incorporation was and our application is to advance education, we think it a great hardship to be deprived of our property and the Trustees