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for action there - freedom & removal of claims of Freedmen's Bureau from his lands. They got into the hands of a claim agent (McGillis) who has quit this County, & it is hard to hunt them down now.  Michie never having been out of possession of the lands, & the Bureau never having had possession, has for a long time ceased to look after his amnesty papers & get freedom & discharge of his lands from the Bureau claim upon them as abandoned.

It seems necessary now for the Bank & Potter &c to attend to this, to protect their mortgage claims.

Please see the Bureau Agent above, & endeavor to arrest any proceeding against the land - until the steps may be taken to get them removed from the Bureau books -
very repy Henry G. Smith