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1165

Portsmouth Va.
September 12th 1865.

At a meeting of the Council of the City of Portsmouth held on the 5th Inst. the following resolution was submitted and adopted viz:

Resolved That the Committee on "Public Property" be authorized and instructed to correspond with the Freedman's Bureau in this Military District, and to adopt such other measures as in their opinion may be expedient and necessary to obtain possession of the house and lot, the property of the City, on High street, adjoining the banking house of the Bank of Virginia 

A copy from the minutes
Wm. G. Webb c.c.