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it being then vacant and unoccupied; that your petitioner purchased it from the said Godwin, believing it to be free from incumbrances and the title complete; that he paid $650.00 for the lot, and has since erected a dwelling house and other buildings costing him some $3000, the loss of which to him would be a very serious one. Your petitioner prays that the property may be released to him as the true owner. He herewith files the certificate of the Clerk of the U.S. Dist. Court, at Norfolk, showing that no proceedings have been  instituted for its confiscation, also the usual Amnesty Oath, and that his the petitioners case is not embraced in any of the exceptions contained in the Presidents proclamation of the 29th of May 1865. Which he prays may be considered in connection with this his petition. 

E.M. Hallett X

Subscribed and sworn to before me this 22d day of February 1867
E C Fitchell J.P.