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placed her said property in the hands of her brother, Joseph C. Addington to be rented out and cared for, and which was afterwards by her consent placed under the control of Simon S. Stubbs for the same purpose, and by whom the rents were regularly paid over to your petitioner until the occupation of Norfolk by the United States Forces, when the communication with Farmville was cut off. That soon after that time, the said property was taken out of the hands of her said agent by the Government, as abandoned property, and the same is now held as such and is rented out and the rents paid over to the Government of the United States. Your petitioner charges that she nor her husband has ever had any connection or participation in any form with the said rebellion, which she supposes to be the alleged cause of the seizure of her property, he never having enlisted or been conscripted in the rebel army and living a peaceable life in the town of Farmville in the capacity of a clerk and your petitioner engaged alone in the duties of life as a married woman. She there

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