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the Bureau &c, seized his property consisting of a tract of land located in Jefferson and Cocke Counties Tenn., and leased it to certain Colored persons - former slaves of Boyd, and placed them in possession &c. He further alleges that the "Freedmens Bureau Bill" is unconstitutional and that the Agent had no right to seize his property &c. &c. and prays that he may be placed in possession of his property, &c.

Col Henry states that he was notified to appear on the third Monday of the next January and show cause for the seizure, &c; that he requested the U.S. Dist. Attorney to appear for him and attend to the case; that the case came up but was postponed by request of the Council for the Plaintiff, and that as the Government still continued to hold the property, and he never heard anything more about it, he supposed the whole matter had been dropped. until notified a few weeks since that a Decree had been made on the 11th of January 1867, in which - as the Defendant failed to appear - the case went by default, and John R. Henry was