Matthew F. Pleasants to Orville Hickman Browning, 9 October 1866

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Title: Matthew F. Pleasants to Orville Hickman Browning, 9 October 1866
Date: October 9, 1866
Creator(s): Matthew F. Pleasants | Walt Whitman
Whitman Archive ID: nar.00131
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October 9, 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, and amounting to Three hundred dollars, ($300.00) of T. Hennessey, for services as assistant to Hon. L. H. Chandler, U. S. Attorney for the Dist. of Virginia, from July 1, 1866, to October 1, 1866,—& to request its payment out of the appropriate fund. Very respectfully, &c M. F. Pleasants, Act'g. Ch'f. Clerk.