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Title: James Speed to Bennett Pike, 11 April 1866

Date: April 11, 1866

Whitman Archive ID: nar.00099

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Attorney General's Office,

April 11, 1866.

To

Bennett Pike, Esq.

U. S. Attorney Western Dist. Mo.

St. Josephs, Missouri

Sir:

You are hereby instructed to dismiss the proceedings for confiscation against John K. Dougherty decea'd, upon the payment of costs.

I am sir, very respectfully,

James Speed,

Attorney General.


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