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petitioner now shows that he has been pardoned by taking the Amnesty oath of President Johnson's proclamation, and does not come within any of the fourteen exceptions therein enumerated, as is shown by the certificate herewith filed, marked D. Under these circumstances, Your petitioner asks to be allowed to recover the possession of the two farms aforesaid immediately, and also to recover the rent that may accrue thereon this year to the government of the United States. And your petitioner will ever pray &c.

Octo: 31st 1865.

Wm. B. Wynne