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1st Sub District
Dept Negro Affairs
Norfolk June 22, 1865

Colonel O Brown A,Q,M
Asst Commissioner
Richmond Va

Colonel
It appears a man named Elisha Ruckman from New York has planted oysters and staked out the beds on the Seine ground at Taylor beach.  Williams reports he cannot haul the Seine without removing the stakes, but in absence of information as to whether the stakes were set by permission from you  I do not like to order their removal- Please instruct me so there shall be no delay- 

As to the farms I have not yet had any men detailed to stake the places of those

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