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two months after saw said Mare and a colt in the possession of said Mackey, and at various times saw said mare in his possession for two years thereafter. That he has seen the same mare in the possession of R. B. Howison on several occasions during the last three or four months. This deponent knows the man very well and knows her to be the same mare sold as above stated at Government sale in 1862. 
That the said William Mackey informed this deponent that he had sold the mare to the said Howison & thinks he said he received one hundred and twenty five dollars for her. 
This deponent further swears that Richard P. Lacey stated under oath, in his hearing that he the said Lacey believed that said mare was stolen from him by a band of Rebel scouts known as the Chinquapin Rangers, and that his mare was about three years old at the time he lost her. 
Geo. Fastnaught

Subscribed and sworn to before me this second day of January 1866. 

John S. Hollingshead

Notary Public

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5 Cts