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To the Commissioners under the Act of Congress approved the
Your petitioner
That your petitioner acquired his claim to the aforesaid service or labor of said persons in manner following:
That your petitioners claim to the service or labor of said persons was at the time of said discharge therefrom of the value of Seventeen hundred and ninety dollars in money: to wit
Your petitioner hereby declares that he bears true and faithful allegiance to the
Constitution and Government of the
And your petitioner further states and alleges, that he has not brought said
persons into the
Your petitioner further states and alleges that the said claim to the service or
labor of said persons does not originate in or by virtue of any transfer
heretofore made by any person who has in any manner aided or sustained the
present rebellion against the Government of the
Your petitioner further states and alleges that he knows of no bodily infirmity
that would lessen the value of said persons but that he believes each of them to
be sound in body and mind; and he prays the said Commissioners to investigate
and determine the validity of his said claim to the service or labor of said
persons as herein set forth; and if the same be found to be valid, that they
appraise and apportion the value of said claim in money and report the same to
the Secretary of the Treasury of the
I give and bequeath to my son in law
I certify that the aforegoing is a true extract from the last will and
testament of
Witness my hand and seal of office this
I,
Subscribed and sworn to before me this