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This property was seized by the late Confederate Government without the knowledge or consent of the owners or their agents, without any contract express or implied no rent or compensation for its use was ever paid.

In January 1866, this property was turned over to the Freedmen's bureau, it having been previously used as barracks for the Federal troops. An application by your Petitioner for the restoration of said property previously made, was returned with the official endorsement that the "property being needed for the use of the freedmen, can not be restored until the necessity for its use has ceased."  All these statements are authenticated by Exhibits herewith filed, which are marked respectively, A, B, C, D, E, F, G and H.

Your Petitioner further states that a large portion of the said property is now unused by the Freedman's bureau, and it may be that no portion of it is needed for the purposes of said bureau.  In the latter event, he prays that all of said property may be surrendered to him as the agent of the owners.  In any event he prays that at least so much of said property as is not new needed for

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