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"1st Proof of Title
2nd, Copy of Pardon or amnesty under the President's Proclamation of May 29th, 1865
3rd Certificate of the Clerk of the U.S. District Court that the U.S. has not acquired title to the property by sale confiscation or other wise"
This last evidence you observe requires the official (underlined) certificate of the Clerk of District Court who resides and has his office in Richmond. This is to beg of you if you please to go to the Clerk, and get the Certificate in question and pay whatever is charged and enclose the whole to