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and then allowed the parties to select their own witnesses, and in their own way, and time, to prove the property to be individual property I have never examined the evidence taken, I suppose it is all on one side.

I think certain "Treasury Agents," were in Texas at the time, who intended to make money, and I presume did so.  There is, as nearly as I can estimate its value $25,000.00 of property, which belonged to the C.S. at the time of the downfall of the concern.  It is now in the hands of private persons I speak what I know to be the facts in the case, when I say the property was once the public property of the Confederacy and now of the United States. 

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C.S. = Confederate States