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War Department,
Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands.
Washington, Dec. 13th 1865.

Brig. Gen. J.W. Sprague,
Assistant Commissioner, &c
Little Rock, Arkansas,

General:
John S. Raine, of Arkansas, having received a Special Pardon from the President of the United States, you are hereby directed to restore, so far as the jurisdiction of this Bureau extends over it, the property formerly owned by him, and which you now hold as abandoned.
This property will be restored subject to the requirements of Circular No. 3. current series, from this Bureau, and on condition that present leasees 

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Such beautiful cursive, truly a lost art.