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Title: William Stewart to G. W. Brooks, 22 August 1865
Date: August 22, 1865
Whitman Archive ID: nar.00046
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Attorney General's Office.
August 22, 1865.
Hon. G. W. Brooks,
Elizabeth City, North Carolina.
Sir:
By direction of the Attorney General I transmit herewith a Commission appointing you to be Judge of the District Court of the United States for the District of North Carolina. I am also directed to request that you will send to this office, along with a copy of your official oath, a statement of the place of your birth for the Biennial Register.
I am sir, very respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
Wm. Stewart,
Chief Clerk.
[Commission enc. with above, & letter sent to care Rev. W. W. Kennedy, 17 Free Mason street, Norfolk, Va.]