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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.