Matthew F. Pleasants to Orville Hickman Browning, 29 September 1866

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Title: Matthew F. Pleasants to Orville Hickman Browning, 29 September 1866
Date: September 29, 1866
Creator(s): Matthew F. Pleasants | Walt Whitman
Whitman Archive ID: nar.00115
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Cite this page: Pleasants, Matthew F. and Walt Whitman. "Matthew F. Pleasants to Orville Hickman Browning, 29 September 1866." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 18 April 2024. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
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Sept. 29, 1866. To Hon. O. H. Browning, Secretary of the Interior. Sir: By direction of the Attorney General I have the honor to transmit herewith the account, by him approved, & amounting to Two hund and fifty dollars, ($250.00) of John G. Chandler for services as assistant to B. H. Smith, U. S. Attorney for the District of West Virginia, from April 1st to October 1st, 1866—and to request its payment out of the appropriate fund. Very respectfully &c. M. F. Pleasants, Act'g Ch'f. Clerk.