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0199

War Department
Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands,
Washington, August 25th, 1865.

Col. O Brown
Asst. Commissioner, &c.,
Richmond, Va.,

Colonel:
Doctor O. F. Baxter of Princess Anne County, Va., having received the pardon of the President, you are hereby directed to return to him, so far as the Jurisdiction of this Bureau extends over it, his property Known as the Walker, Dozier, and Olds farms in Princess Anne County, Va.
The restoration to be subject to the requirements of Circular No. 3 of May 22d 1865, from this Bureau and upon the following conditions:
1st. That possession be not resumed until the expiration of the leases upon the property, if any exist.
2nd. That nothing in this order of restoration be construed as giving any claim upon the government, for rents or damages 

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