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on the 28th day of April, A.D. 1865, at the City of Norfolk, he took and subscribed the oath of amnesty prescribed by the proclamation of the President of the U.S. That when your petitioner left the County of Accomack, in the year 1859, he appointed his brother, John R. Parker, his agent and attorney to control and manage his estate in the said county and that he continued to manage and control it until the same was taken possession of by the said Hartley as aforesaid. That these lands were therefore never abandoned by your petitioner, according to a fair and proper construction of law, he having removed from them in the the year 1859, and purchased other lands in the County of Isle of Wight, in which he resided until the 1st of January 1866. He was not in Accomack at the breaking out of the war, but a resident of another County; his absence therefore was necessary and proper, and could at no time be construed as an abandonment of his property in Accomack - Your petitioner therefore believes that by every principle of justice and right he is entitled to the said contracts for rent and that the same should be assigned to him-

2d Your petitioner asks that the said lands may be restored to him. In addition to the facts above stated, he represents, that he is not included in any of the excepted classes embraced in the President's Proclamation of May 29th 1865, and that no proceedings, other than those above stated, have been had, by which the United States has acquired title to the said tract of land- There has been no sale, or confiscation of the said tract of land, and your petitioner is entitled to the