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State of Virginia
City of Norfolk S.S.

On this 3'd day of October 1865 before me the undersigned a Notary Public in and for the City aforesaid in the State of Virginia, duly commissioned and qualified and authorized by the law of said state to administer oaths for general purposes in said City personally appeared Joseph R. Woodly, who, being by me first duly sworn, doth depose and say, that he has read the President's proclamation of the 29th May 1865, in which certain immunities and privileges are promised to those engaged in the late rebellion against the Gov. of the United States, and excepting certain persons whose cases are particularly enumerated therein; and that the case of the said deponent is not embraced in any one of the said exceptions as he verily believes.

Jos. R. Woodley.

Submited and sworn to before me the undersigned a Notary Public in & for the City of Norfolk Virginia this 3'd day of October 1865. As witness my hand & seal of office.

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Simon S. Stubbs
Notary Public