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beginning of June of the present year, he
seat his son as his representative and agent 
to claim and obtain possession of his property, which he did to the extent that was practicable. That not until he arrived here himself, a few weeks since, was he aware that his land might be supposed to be classed amongst "abandoned lands".

He respectfully represents that this character cannot correctly be applied to them - because he left home under what he regarded the necessity of removing himself and his family - at least the female portion of it, constituting all but one - from the march of armies, the shock of battle and the evils of war. The land in question could not have been occupied by him because it was, to a considerable extent occupied by a system of fortifications - because it was just in the line of the constant march of troops. It has been the scene of battles.

So soon as it was possible to do so, without