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War Department
Bureau of Refugees Freedmen and Abandoned Lands.
Washington, Jun, 24th, 1865.

 Col. O. Brown
Assistant Commissioner, ac,
Richmond, VA.

Colonel:

Hezekiah Williams; of Norfolk, Va. having received a special pardon from the President of the United States, you are hereby directed to restore, so far as the jurisdication of the Bureau extends over it, the property formerly owner by him and which you now hold as abandoned.

This property will be rstored on condition that present lessee be allowed to retain posession until the expiration of their leases and that the teachers now occupying it be allowed to remain in possession until