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Demopolis, 23d June 1866
Dear Sir,

I am in receipt of yours of the 19th inst enclosing copy of the letter of the atty Genl. to you on the subject of the letter to the Knobb County property; and are much indebted for your effort in endeavoring to have the several matters connected with the true property axpected.

The District Atty could not of course have been ignorant of the fact that the property by order of the [[strikethrough]] President [[/strikethrough]] Executive Govt has been turned over to you for the benefit of the Freedman Bureau with authority to sell and that you had in fact sold it at public auction for a full price. The proceeding in the District Court of the U.S. even if successful could only amount to a judg't of condemnation vesting the property in the U.S. - Such title as the U.S. might acquire by the proceeding would of course under your sale by authority of the President & Secretary of the Treasury enure to your vendees, so that I do not understand the object or purpose of the proceeding in the District Court. 

I purchased the property because I apposed from the fact that it had been sold & conveyed by the former owner to the late confederate

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