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Gen Howard.

I Hope you will see the property of ordering this property named in the petition to the petitioners fill possession & control. The very feelings of humanity forbids oppression by the government of widows and orphan children. Congress certainly never contemplated the [[strikethrough]] of [[/strikethrough]] idea of punishing this class by the act [[strikethrough]] to seize abandoned [[/strikethrough]] Authorizing the seizure of abandoned property. I am earnest in this request, I cannot stand without deep feeling the cry of the widow and orphan for what I believe their mere legal rights.
 
F. H. Peirpoint

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