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place Genl Butten had no right to give any one leave to cut wood on my land or any one else's, as such permit was clearly intended for the benefit of private parties and would have been injurious eather to myself or the Govt. as the claim of one or the other to the property should be established.
In the third place I have made arrangements to cultivate the land.
Now as the sale of the stock and wood and the crops I can make afford the only means of maintaining my mother now 84 years old, my wife and family of nine children, myself being in such ill health and such advanced age that I cannot devise any other means of subsisting them; and as by my efforts to take the befits of Mr Lincoln's amnesty proclamation, I am sure I have brought myself within the equity of Judge Underwood's decision, I respectfully ask restitution of the land I hold from my mother and also of my own, to hold until I am ousted by a decision of the courts.
Her claim has been presented to you in another paper, that, as well as every statement in this paper can be sustained by testimony, which will be offered on any point you may desire.

I am Col very respectfully &c
George Booker

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