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"about to convert the same into [[?]] (lumber_ as directed by you, he was prevented by Capt Pride of the "Freedmens Bureau" on the ground that the Government claimed it. Capt Pride says he is acting under instructions from Capt Flagg.
Nottingham has taken the oath of Allegiance & does not come within the accepted classes of the Presidents proclamation. All of his property on the E. Shore will not pay his debts & if the Govt permits its subordinates to hold it, it will but injure those it should not injure
Yours Respectfully
(signed) Edgar S. Spady.
P.S. Pride, tho' cognizant of the fact did not interfere to prevent the sale."
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