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State of Virginia} ss.
City of Norfolk

On this 20th day of October 1866, before me the undersigned a Notary Public for the city aforesaid, in the state aforesaid, duly commissioned and qualified and authorized by the laws of said state to administer oath for general purposes in said city, personally appeared George Washington, who, being by me first duly sworn, deposes and says that about the month of June last he employed Chas. C. Brown to prosecute his claim for bounty for services as a private in Co: G. U.S. Col'd Troops,  Regt that in the month of August following, the deponent called up on the said Chas C. Brown to know what was coming to him that he might purchase some clothes which he much needed. The said Brown wrote on a piece of paper, "Good for fifty dollars", which the deponent took to Messrs. Seldner & Co., clothing merchants of Norfolk, and purchased clothes to the amount of forty nine 50/100 dollars. The said deponent than returned to Mr. Brown, in company with the clerk of Messrs Seldner & Co, and informed him of the purchase and the amount, and Mr. Brown assumed to pay the amount when the money due the said deponent for bounty was received by him. About two weeks after Mr. Thos. L. Baker sent for him and asked deponent what he had

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