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United States of America United States District Court District of Virginia Clerks Office ss. I William H. Barry clerk of the United States District Court for the District of Virginia do hereby certify that I have carefully Examined and Inspected the Records and files in my Office and find that no proceedings have been initiated in this Court for the confiscation of the property of William J. Messick lying and being in the City of Norfolk and District of Virginia In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at Norfolk in said District this 19th day of January AD 1867 W. H. Barry Clerk pr. J. P. Hodges Dep [[internal revenue stamp]]