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Lt. & Asst. Supt. R.F. & A.L. stationed in Accomack County: That the lands are still occupied by the said tenants, under the said contracts, and the rents and profits issuing from the said lands are claimed by the said Lt. Hite, as such Asst. Supt. That your petitioner is not informed of the time the transfer was made by the said Hartley to the said Bureau, but that no portion of the said rents have ever been paid by the tenants to any one, the said contracts still remaining in full force and virtue.
Your petitioner asks that these lands may be restored to him, and that all the interest and claim of the said Bureau in and to the said contracts may be assigned and transferred to your petitioner. And for the following reasons,
1st As to the contracts for rent.
Your petitioner claims that these should be assigned to him because he believes that the original taking possession of the said lands by the said Harley was erroneous and against justice and right. Your petitioner is fifty eight years of age - In 1859, he removed from the County in Accomack to the county of Isle of Wight, where he continued to reside until about the 1st of January 1866. That your petitioner was, in no manner whatever connected with the so called Confederate Government, or with its armies, and that during the whole war he remained at his home in the said County of Isle of Wight, and did not for a moment leave the limits of that County. That he took no part whatever in the late unfortunate Contest, and that soon after it had ended, to wit,