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Office Asst Supt Freedmen
Norfolk Va. Aug 12 1865.

Respectfully referred to L.H. Chandler Esq for his opinion as to the question of abandonment and the law of Congress, organizing the Freedmen's Bureau. 

Jno. H. Keatley
Lt & Asst Supt
Freedmen;

I have had occasion to examine this case, and have never thought the property was to be treated as abandoned.

L.H. Chandler
U.S. Dist. Atty
for Virginia.