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War Department,
Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands,
Washington, Aug. 31, 1865.

Col. O. Brown,
Assistant Commissioner, &c.
Richmond, Virginia.

Colonel:
James A Fisher of North Hampton County Va. having taken the Amnesty Oath under the Proclamation of May 29. 1865, and produced evidence that he is subject to none of the exceptions therein mentioned, you are hereby directed to restore, so far as the jurisdiction of this Bureau extends over it, that portion of his property which you hold as abandoned or confiscable.

Said property is claimed to be as follows:- "Three small tracts of land situated in the County of North Hampton, Va, the first containing

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