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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.