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To S W Mallory, Local Agent and Superintendent of Freedmen, Refugees and abandoned lands in the District of Pine Bluff Arkansas.

Your Petitioner Nat G Smith, respectfully makes this his application for the restoration of the following lands, held by you as abandoned lands, and located in Jefferson County Arkansas and described as follows, to wit: 
S 1/2 of NE 1/4 of Section twenty
W 1/2 of NW 1/4 Section 28
All of Section 29
N 1/2 of NE 1/4 Section 32
S W 1/4 of NE 1/4 Section 32

All in Township six and Range eight, containing nine hundred and twenty acres -
Also N W 1/4 of section 32, in same Township and range.

Your petitioner states that he has taken the amnesty oath under the Presidents Amnesty proclamation, a copy of which is here hereto annexed and made a part of this petition. He also states that he is not included in any one of the exceptions of said proclamation; that he is not worth twenty thousand dollars, and makes as part of this petitions, his certificate to that effect. He also refers to the certificates of the sheriff 

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