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0782

Joseph. N. Miles

Asks for a restoration of Property, in Portsmouth Va. being three houses and lots

Applies for property
Restore
forward [[?]]

L.R. M16-EB-39.
Recd. Aug. 18, 1865.
Land Dept. Bu R.F & AL. 

Office Asst. Supt Freedmen, 
Norfolk Va Aug 8" 1865. 

Respectfully forwarded to Capt A. S. Flagg A.Q.M. &c & with the information that by the affidavits; and admissions of the applicant a clear case of abandonment is made out. The "private" business attended to seems to have been of more importance in the Confederacy than the protection of his property within the Union Lines, - and it is a well settled principle of International Law that where a party goes within the lines of an enemy and engages in any kind of trade - however apparantly innocent - he gives aid & comfort to that enemy to the extent to which the wants of that enemy are supplied by his
  

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