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states for even a very liberal consideration. That I could have no controversy upon the question of title. I even consulted Mr C C Huckabee who [[strikethrough]] sold [[/strikethrough]] with others sold & conveyed to the Confederate state, about the title before your sale was made and he so far then from raising a doubt about the title agreed if he could use his share of the purchase money, to join one in the purchase [[strikethrough]] of [[/strikethrough]]. He now claims that his sale & Conveyance conferred no title deed and asserts a claim to the property upon a mere technical ground. 
My information is that C C Huckabee Gray Huckabee A K Shephard & Washington M Smith grantors in the deed to the late Confederate States have been pardoned by the President ~ I take it for granted that like other applicants for Amnesty pardon these parties were required to state [[neither?]] [[?]] that the U.S. had no property in possession either as captured or abandoned property claimed by them. The Bibb County property has I suppose been in possession of the U.S. since the home of its capture by Genl Wilson - The Collector of the Port of Mobile was certainly in charge of the property as early as August 1865. - The purchasers at your sale had a right to presume that