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the improvements are of very little account, as the island is deemed unhealthy and none but the honest people who can't get habitations else where will reside there at all. You could not set Freedmen to live there. I mention this merely to show that even if the question were an open one there is nothing it. I was glad to rent the whole island for $500 per an. and the party leasing declared all he wanted it for was for the purpose of depositing the slag from the Iron Works - that nobody would live on the island.

I am not aware that there has been any action taken in this case your office, and supposed the threatened action was by your officer in Richmond alone. He has not, however undertaken to disturb the lessee.

My proposition is this: that the matter is not adjudicated,  and cannot be disturbed. Gen. Terry represented the whole military power of the Govt and his action is final. There is no

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