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Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands,
5th Division, 5th Sub Dist.
Headquarters, [[strikethrough]] Sub-District New Kent and Charles City Counties [[/strikethrough]] , Va.
New Kent C. H., Va.,
June 21st. 1867

Bt. Brig. Gen. O. Brown.
Asst. Com'r. State of Va.

Sir;

I have the honor to report that Francis C. Bowman (Col'd) of Charles City Co. having complained that a cow in his possession had been levied on by the Sheriff of that County for taxes due from said Bowman.  I investigated the case at Charles City Court House on the 20th inst. and found that said Bowman has paid no taxes for three years and that the cow had been levied on as reported; the sheriff said that he had himself paid Bowman's taxes for two years back and had received nothing for so doing.

As Bowman is past sixty years of age and is in very bad health, and has a family to support; and it also appearing by satisfactory evidence that the cow in question belongs to