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Title: Matthew F. Pleasants to D. W. Middleton, 17 October 1866

Date: October 17, 1866

Whitman Archive ID: nar.00139

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Oct. 17, 1866.

To

D. W. Middleton, Esq.

Clerk Supreme Court, U. S.

Sir:

By direction of the Attorney General, I transmit herewith records in the following cases, appealed by the U. S. in the Dist. of Louisiana:

U. S. vs. the steamer Eleanor, &c &c.

"    "   "   "       Lelia, &c. &c

"    "   "   "       Countess, &c &c

"    "   "   "       Anna Perret &c &c

"    "   "   "       Frolic, &c. &c.

"    "   "   "       T. S. Connolly, &c.

"    "   Peter Ernest Brulatoure, & Hypolite Nores, & Francis Laforde.

I have the honor to be

Very respectfully,

M. F. Pleasants,

Act'g Ch'f. Clerk.


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