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from timber or material not taken from the land but procured elsewhere, the lessee shall be permitted to remove said house or improvements, on vacating the land at expiration of lease;- provided all just claims for rent, due owner, have been paid. 

Great dissatisfaction exists, even under this decision and, it would seem, not unreasonably, in view of the fact that very many of the houses now owned by freed-people were built from material found on the land at a time when it was not in the possession of the original owner, but held by the government, whose authorized agents placed the freed-people on the land and empowered them to use the timber there found, for building and other necessary purposes. Having availed themselves of this privilege and erected such small cabins as their means allowed, by their own labor; and having held them, as their undisputed property for several years, their sudden ejectment from and disposession of their homes, is looked upon by them as an absolute injustice.

This question, though of comparetively minor