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Berlin, Md. Sep 1,1869

Daniel S Biser, Esq. Dear Sir: I own a warehouse on the C & O Canal in the village which I am paying a ground rent of $36 per year which I think is wrong or if not wrong is certainly a very heavy charge.

I own all the lots

except one between the railroad and the canal on the east side of third street making five in number.

I built my warehouse on the

edge of canal and occupy a strip of ground a portion of the berm bank twelve feet in width and the length of my house, Sixty feet, which is all the ground that the canal co. furnished in the charge of $36.

My warehouse is excepting grain and canal trade.

are two other grain houses of the same kind at this place.

There On Mr.

Jordons is set back some 12 feet further than mine and the basin cleaned out to it pays no ground rent. is on the canal companys ground.

The other Mr. C.F. Wenners

They furnish him of his warehouse

and warehouse purposes over one half acre of ground for which ground I was compelled to buy for the use of my warehouse of individuals at a cost of $500, Besides that they furnish Mr. Wenner ground for a store house on the lock and only charge $36 Per year the same as they charge me for a strip of ground 12 feet wide by 60 feet long. The above is statement of the facts and you will please