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subject to the right of dower aforesaid:- That the liens created by the institution of the suits and the levying of the attachments aforesaid are prior to the passage of the Act of the Congress of the United States confiscating the property of persons in the service of the so-called Confederate States:- That the facts in relation to said suits and liens, and the amount of indebtedness, will fully appear by reference to the records of the before mentioned Court, and a list of said suits will be furnished by the undersigned if required. From the time of the commencement of the undersigned's Agency he has appropriated the whole funds of his principals which have come to his hands, including the rents of their before described Real Estate, to the payment of their debts; and having exhausted all other of such funds he is now applying the Rents as they accrue due to the satisfaction of the interest upon the debts of said principals still outstanding. The larger portion of the Creditors believing with the undersigned that a sale of said lands in the present depressed condition of the market would result in the loss of a part of their debts, have forborne to press a sale under their liens.

Having understood that you are in behalf of the Governments of the United States, ascertaining the lands in this County subject to confiscation, the undersigned felt it incumbent upon him, in discharge of the duty owing to the creditors of his principals, to make the foregoing statement to you. He feels confident that the Government will not interfere with vested rights, acquired under the laws of the land anterior to the passage of the Act of Congress herein before referred to; nor can he believe the Government desires to inflict loss upon