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paid to the Freedman's Bureau first and have paid over eight hundred dollars ($800.00) to defend a title carrying with it the purported authority of the United States.

I have once before asked from the Freedman's Bureau a reimbursement of the money I paid for the property and this I respectfully submit is but the simplest justice in its failure to protect the title it gave. I have served three years in the government of the U.S. as [[strikethrough]] I believe you [[/strikethrough]] I stated to you when I called on you at Mobile.

I now respectfully renew the petition and beg that you will give it your earliest consideration.

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J J Osborn