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crutches. That, on account of his physical condition, he was unable to give personal attention to his said property in Norfolk, but always during the said period, employed agents to attend to the same for him. That, on the same account, he endeavored to keep out of the way of the movements of the contending armies- & sought retreat in the rural portions of Virginia & North Carolina. He never abandoned his said property in Norfolk - but when he removed from the city (in the month of May 1862 before its capture by Gen: Wool) he left his usual agents in charge of the same, & the customary tenants in all the buildings. That his agents were afterwards forbidden to receive the rents by parties claiming to act under authority of the Treasury Department- & the rents were taken without taxes being paid out of the same, or needful repairs made, or the interests of his mortgage creditors (whose claims upon the property are very large) in any degree protected- & that the said property has been much injured by the course pursued & the undersigned seriously impoverished. 

The undersigned returned to Norfolk in the month of May, 1865; & he would have returned much earlier if his physical condition would have admitted, & he could have got through the lines.

Believing his case to be one which commends itself for relief, he respectfully asks that in a matter so

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