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To the honorable Hons Senate and House of Representatives Your petitioner W H Macon. M.D. desires to be relieved of his "disabilities" (if any such exist). Your petitioner is 53 years old, was a magistrate in the County of New Kent and State of Virginia from 1852 until the war and during the war a magistrate in the Court of Hanover in same State. He has never engaged in the war, was violently opposed to its inception, & always opposed (secession) but candidly admits that after its commencement, he sympathized with his own people. That he has from the first, acquiesced cooperated in with the Reconstruction Acts as passed by Congress and now feels himself to be a good an loyal citizen of the United States, and therefore humbly prays to be put on an equal footing of with other citizens. Your petitioner can refer to Gen Wms C Wickham, &c. to Gen Rufus Ingalls of the US.A. as to his status during 1862 when he occupied the White House in said County of New Kent. &c.