Matthew F. Pleasants to Orville Hickman Browning, 3 October 1866

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Title: Matthew F. Pleasants to Orville Hickman Browning, 3 October 1866
Date: October 3, 1866
Creator(s): Matthew F. Pleasants | Walt Whitman
Whitman Archive ID: nar.00118
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Cite this page: Pleasants, Matthew F. and Walt Whitman. "Matthew F. Pleasants to Orville Hickman Browning, 3 October 1866." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 09 May 2025. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
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October 3, 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 Seven hundred & fifty dollars ($750.00) of John A. Wills, Esq. for legal services in California Land Cases, under special contract with the Attorney General, from July 1st 1866, to October 1st 1866; & to request its payment out of the appropriate fund. Very respectfully, &c. M. F. Pleasants, Act'g Ch'f. Clerk.