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Williamsburg Va
27th Nov. 1865


Col. O. Brown
Asst. Supt &c &c
Richmond

Sir
I am informed by my son-in-law, Professor Edwd. S. Joyner of William and Mary College, that he saw at your Office in Richmond, last work, an order from Washington, directing that rents for the current year should he paid to the owner of property proportionally, from the line of their amnesty or pardon by the  President of the United States, and that you informed him that they rule would be adopted, in all districts under your jurisdiction Various parties here are now receiving their proportionate rents but the rents due me are