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Special Order No 51

March 20th, 1866.
Special Order
No 51
I...So far as any jurisdiction of this Bureau extends over it, the property of Wm R. Hanahan, consisting of a lot of land, with appurtenances thereon situated on County Street, Portsmouth, Va, is restored to him with all the rights and privileges of ownership, upon the following conditions. viz:
1st The property will be restored to Wm R. Hanahan, upon the expiration of the lease to any third party, or parties, if any exists.
2nd That nothing in this order be construed as entitling him to compensation for damages to the property, or to rents which many have accrued. 
II...So far as any jurisdiction of this Bureau extends over it, the property of Humphrey H. Hynne, consisting of a tract of land, situated in Counties of York and Warwick, Va, is restored to him with all the rights and privileges of ownership, subject to the requirements of Par. 8, Cir. 15, War Department, Bureau R.F. and A.L, Series 1865, and upon the following conditions- viz:
1st the property will be restored to Humphrey H. Hynne, upon the expiration of the lease to any third party or parties, if any exist 
2nd That nothing in this order be construed as entitling him to

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compensation for damages to the property, or to rents which may have accrued-

III. So far as any jurisdiction of this Bureau extends over it, the property of Frederick W. Jett, consisting of a lot of land, situated in the town of Hampton, Elizabeth City County, Va, is restored to him with all the rights and privileges of ownership, subject to the requirements of Par. 8, Cir. 15, Series 1865, Bureau R. F. and A.L, War Department, and upon the following conditions- Viz:
1st The property will be restored to Frederick W. Jett, upon the expiration of the lease to any third party or parties, if any exists-
2nd That nothing in this order be construed as entitling him to compensation for damages to the property, or to rents which may have accrued-

IV. So far as any jurisdiction of this Bureau extends over it, a tract of land, known as Yatemsville, situated in the County of Norfolk, Va, is restored to Charles Sharp, trustee, with all the rights and privileges of ownership, subject to the requirements of Par. 8, Cir. 15, Series 1865, War Department, Bureau R.F. & A.L, and upon the following conditions--Viz:
1st The property will be restored to Charles Sharp, trustee, upon the expiration of the lease to any third party, or parties, if any exists-

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Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, & Abandoned Lands, 
HEAD QUARTERS ASSISTANT COMMISIONER STATE OF VIRGINIA, 
Richmond, Va., March 19th, 1866

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CIRCULAR NO. 11
The following Acts of the General Assembly of Virginia and instruction relating thereto are published for the information of the Officers and Agents of this Bureau, and all other persons concerned. 

An Act to amend and re-enact the Fourteenth Section of Chapter One Hundred and Eight of the Code of Virginia for Eighteen Hundred and Sixty, in regard to Registers of Marriage, and to legalize the marriages of colored persons, now co-habiting as husband and wife. — Passed February 27th, 1866.

I. Henceforth, it shall be the duty of every minister or other person celebrating a marriage, and of the clerk or keeper of records of any religious society, which solemnizes marriages, by the consent of parties, in open congregation, at once to make a record of every marriage between white persons or between colored persons, solemnized by or before him, stating in such record whether the persons be white or colored, and within two months after such marriage to return a copy thereof, signed by him, to the Clerk of the County or Corporation in which the same is solemnized. The clerk issuing any marriage license, shall at the time require and ascertain from the party obtaining such a license a certificate setting forth, as near as may be, the date and place of the proposed marriage, the full names of both the parties, their ages and conditions before marriage (whether single or widowed), the places of their birth and residence, the names of their parents and the occupation of the husband. 

II. Where colored persons, before the passage of this Act shall have undertaken and agreed to Occupy the relation to each other of husband and wife and shall be cohabiting together as such at the time of its passage, whether the rites of marriage shall have been celebrated between them or not, they shall be deemed husband and wife, and be entitled to the rights and privileges, and subject to the duties and obligations of that relation in like manner as if they had been duly married by law, and all their children shall be deemed legitimate, whether born before or after  
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