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State of Virginia 
City of Norfolk } s.s.

On this 30th day of September 1865 before me the undersigned a Notary Public in the City aforesaid in the State of Virginia duly Commissioned and qualified and authorized by the laws of said state to administer oaths for general purposes in said City, personally appeared William A. Lowell, who, being by me first duly sworn for that purpose, doth depose and say, that he has read the President's proclamation of the 29th May 1865, in which certain immunities and privileges are promised to those engaged in the recent rebellion against the Government of the United States, and excepting certain classes of persons from the benefits thereof and who are particularly named in the exceptions therein contained, and that the case of said deponent is not embraced in any one of the said exceptions contained in the said proclamation, as he verily believes.

W. A. Lowell

Subscribed and sworn to before me the undersigned a Notary Public in and for the City of Norfolk Virginia, this 30th day of Sep. 1865. As witness my hand and seal of office.

Simon S. Stubbs
Notary Public 

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