Benjamin Helm Bristow to John F. Hartley, 13 September 1871

Sept. 13, 1871. Hon. J. F. Hartley, Acting Secretary of the Treasury, Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 11th instant, and to inform you that, in compliance with your request, a requisition for $2910 has been drawn on the Judiciary Fund, in favor of the Treasurer of the United States, to be by him credited in his general account, as a deposite of James W. Chew, Clerk of the U.S. Courts for the District of Maryland, on account of a balance due the United States from Daniel J. Waddell, late collector of Customs at Vienna, Md. Very respectfully, &c. B. H. Bristow, Solicitor Gen'l, & Acting Attorney Gen'l.