Matthew F. Pleasants to Orville Hickman Browning, 4 October 1866

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Title: Matthew F. Pleasants to Orville Hickman Browning, 4 October 1866
Date: October 4, 1866
Creator(s): Matthew F. Pleasants | Walt Whitman
Whitman Archive ID: nar.00122
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Cite this page: Pleasants, Matthew F. and Walt Whitman. "Matthew F. Pleasants to Orville Hickman Browning, 4 October 1866." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 20 April 2024. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
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October 4, 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, approved by him, & amounting to Three hundred & seventy five dollars, ($375.00) of J. Sterling Smith, as Second Assistant to Wm. A. Dart, Esq. U. S. Attorney, Northern Dist. New York, for the quarter ending Sept. 30, 1866—and to request its payment out of the appropriate fund. Very respectfully, &c M. F. Pleasants, Act'g. Ch'f. Clerk.