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War Department,
Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands.
Washington, Oct. 7th, 1865

Colonel O. Brown,
Assistant Commissioner. &c.
Richmond. Va.

Colonel:
James H Custis, having received a special pardon from the President of the United States, you are hereby directed to restore, so far as the jurisdiction of this Bureau extends over it, the property formerly owned by him, situated in Accomac County, Virginia, and which you now hold as abandoned. 

This property will be restored subject to the requirements of Circular No. 3, current series, from this Bureau, and upon condition that present lessees be allowed to retain possession until the expiration of their leases. Nothing in the Order of