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Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, Office Superintendent 2d District, Petersburg, Va., Jan 30th 1866. I certify that the property of Thos. L. Shippen situated in Chesterfield Co can be be restored to his possession without such restoration causing any suffering among refugees and freedmen or inconveniencing the operations of the Bureau in any manner whatever Stuart Barnes Capt and Asst. Qr. Mr Supt 2d dist