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Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen & Abandoned Lands.
Head Quarters Asst. Commissioner, State of Virginia,
Richmond, Va,. October 5th 1865.

Major General O.O. Howard
Commissioner &c

General,
The following order was received by the Asst Supt at Norfolk endorsed on one of my orders for the restoration of property-

"The property herein mentioned will be at once restored to Mr. Southgate notwithstanding the terms of the lease of the same as made by the agent of this Bureau
By order of Maj. Gen. Howard 
(signed) J.S. Fullerton 
Bvt. Brig. Genl. A.A.G."

I beg leave to state, that the property of Mr. Southgate was under lease when the order was issued, and I learn that the tenants propose to test the question at law, whether the government can break faith with them.

The rents accruing under these leases

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