Matthew F. Pleasants to Orville Hickman Browning, 8 October 1866

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Title: Matthew F. Pleasants to Orville Hickman Browning, 8 October 1866
Date: October 8, 1866
Creator(s): Matthew F. Pleasants | Walt Whitman
Whitman Archive ID: nar.00128
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October 8, 1866. To Hon. O. H. Browning, Secretary of the Interior. Sir: I am directed by the Attorney General to transmit you herewith the account, approved by him, & amounting to Five hundred dollars, ($500.00) of Walbridge A. Field, for services as Assistant to R. H. Dana, Jr. Esq. U. S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts, 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.