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part thereof or shall be equal to my claim against it from the 30th day of June 1865. the time of my taking the amnesty oath prescribed by Prest. [[President]] Johnsons Proclamation, shall be delivered to me.

I respectfully claim that, in strict justice, my interest in this third reserved for the government, should be computed from the 3rd day of May 1865, the date on which I took the amnesty oath prescribed by the Proclamation of Pres. Lincoln; & if you have authority to make the allowance from that time, I respectfully ask that it be done - 

I am very respectfully
Your obedt. serv. 
O.F. Baxter