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Sam Young
(sgd) J. M. Herndon
Secty of Commonwealth."

On the same day a letter was sent by Mr Secretary Herndon to Mr Thomas F. Jackson a gentleman of Princess Anne Co. who had taken an interest in this freedmen.
Mr. Herndon states that these letters were mailed at the same time. Mr. Jackson happening to be in Norfolk on the 26th Dec. received the letter addressed to him which had arrived by the mail of the 24th and had been in Norfolk all of the 25th. He at that time inquired whether an official letter addressed as above to the Sheriff or Jailor had been received and the clerk at the Post Office, named Jones, informed him that it had been received by the same mail as his own from the Secretary. The official envelope[[strikethrough]]s[[/strikethrough]] and the unusual address attracted his notice at the time. This letter was sent from the Norfolk P.O. to the store of Mr Rylan Capps in that city - who as an accommodation to the people of Princess Anne Co. took general charge of the letters addressed to them - there being no Post Office in that County as no one has been found willing or able to take the necessary oath. - I examined Mr. Leonard O. Capps now in charge of the store - Mr. Rylan Capps having recently died. Mr. Capps states that it is wholly impossible for him to remember to whom the letter was delivered or on what day. He gives the letters to any respectable person from the County who is known to him and who agrees to take them out. Some one comes for the purposed nearly every day except Monday. If the letter was in his store on Monday