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the undersigned filed a certificate of his having taken the Amnesty oath presented by the President of the United States and moved to dismiss the libels against his property and on the 5th day of June the Court did order the dismissal of each of the libels and ordered the Marshall to restore the lands and other property to him, he is in possession of his farm called "Pocahontas," which has been his residence for the last 27 years and his farm "Holly Brook" Dech Branch Farm is in possession of John A. Brinkley under a lease from his daughter Mary L. Fisher to whom Genl. Ord when commanding this department had ordered it to be restored as he had likewise that of my residence. My farm "Woodbury" is rented by Wm. J. Nottingham but the Treasury Agent informed me that he had never taken any bond for the rent - no one of these three farms is occupied to Freedmen or in their cultivation. My farm called "Town Fields" has had a colony of freedmen on it, but it has been restored to me by the order of your Department reserving the crop of the freedman to them. My farm "Pocahontas" has not been interfered with by any agent of the government the present year, but is cultivated on shares by two neighbors to whom my daughter rented it. And now the undersigned files herewith certified copies of the decrees & orders of the court and of his having taken the Amnesty oath, and asks Col Brown to order that the decrees of the Court shall be respected and that the tenants on his lands shall not be disturbed about paying their rents to any other [[?self]] to any agent of the Government.
Meirs W. Fisher 
Octo. 5th 1865

[[stamp]] U.S. INTER. REVENUE CERTIFICATE FIVE 5 CENTS [[/stamp]]

City of Richmond to wit.
This day Miers W. Fisher personally appeared before me and made oath that he verilly believes the facts above stated in his petition are true. 
Given under my hand this the 2 day of October 1865
Francis V. Sutton [[?]] N.P.

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