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To Col. O. Brown, Assistant Commissioner of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, for the State of Virginia.
The petition of Thomas I Corprew, late sergeant of the City of Norfolk, and administrator of William Doyle, dec'd, with his will annexed.
Your petitioner respectfully represents as follows:
1. Your Petitioner, as the Administrator of the said William Doyle, dec'd, soon after his appointment which was made on the 1st day of March, A.D. 1859, took possession of two lots of land and the buildings thereon, in the said City, of which the dais William Doyle died seized, and proceeded to make leases thereof for the benefit of the said testator's estate.
2. The children of the said William Doyle's brother, Thomas Doyle, and the children of his deceased brother, Martin Doyle, are the owners, in fee simple, of the said lots, under the will of the said William Doyle, dec'd.
3. The children of the said Thomas Doyle have resided in the city of New York from some period prior to the year 1861 till the present time, and still reside there, and all of them, except one, are under the age of Twenty one years, and that one is about twenty two, or twenty three, years of age.
4. The children of the said Martin Doyle, dec'd, have resided in the city of New Orleans from some period prior to the year 1861 till the present time, and still reside there, and all of them are under the age of twenty one years.
5. The military authorities of the United States, some time in the year 1862, took possession of the said lots; afterwards they transferred the said lots to the Treasury Department of the United States; and the said Treasury Department of the United States afterwards transferred the said lots to the Bureau

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