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To Leiut M.L. Reed
Commissioner of Freedmens Bureau of the County of Elizabeth City

The Petition of Chas. D. Cake Guardian of George Youngs Orphans respectfully shows

That at the time of the death of the said George Young he was seized of a certain lot of land in Hampton Eliz City Co. Va bounded by Wine Street, Latemer, Vaughan and Shelton

That your Petitioner is the legally qualified Guardian of the Infant orphans of said George Young died

That your Petitioner finds that the said lot is now on the books of the Freedmans Bureau of the County of Elizabeth City Va and in as much as the same has never been abandoned he prays that the same may be restored to him as the Guardian of the orphans of said Geo Young

In support of this application he files

1st. certificate of the Clerk of the County Court of E City Co: that the lot is charged on the books of the said County as the property of the heirs of said Geo Young marked A -

2d  certificate that he duly qualified as the Guardian of the said orphans of Geo Young died marked B

3d  certificate that said property has never been labelled for confiscation marked C

4th  Certificate that he does not come within the exceptions of the Presidents Amnesty Proclamation marked D

5th  Certificate of his having taken the Amnesty Oath marked E. and he therefore prays that the said lot may be restored to him upon the usual condition that the interest of no Freedman will suffer as none are on the lot of such restoration all of which is respectfully submitted

C.D. Cake
Guardian of the Orphans
of Geo Young died.