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There is some mystery in this Matter - The House was first taken by the Military as the books in Major Hudsons Office will prove - then transferred to the Treasury Agency & then to my Father & I cannot conceive how it got on the Books of the Freedman's bureau except by mistake or misrepresentation

After looking over the papers sent to you yesterday by Mr Wm Walke, may I ask the favor of you to give such instructions to your Assistant at Norfolk as will relieve the property not only of his control but of the demand which he makes on the Tenant for back rent 

I am Col
Very Respt
Your Obt Svt 
Richd Walke

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