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Head Quarters, Post of Mobile
Mobile, Ala. May 10 1867

Respectfully returned to Major Tracy, Asst. Coms'r. Freedmans Bureau at Mobile who is further requested to state all within his knowledge, either personally, by record, or current rumor, regarding the sale of said Boat, where it was found at the time of seizure, whether in confederate Store House or wharf, and if in any ones charge as private property - whether claimant or his agent know of seizure by Bureau and made claim at the time or when etc

O.L. Shepherd
Colonel 15" Infantry
Comd'g. Post.
E&M.B.
411. RgC.