Orville Hickman Browning to Orville Hickman Browning, 14 April 1868

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Title: Orville Hickman Browning to Orville Hickman Browning, 14 April 1868
Date: April 14, 1868
Creator(s): Orville Hickman Browning | Walt Whitman
Whitman Archive ID: nar.00513
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Cite this page: Browning, Orville Hickman and Walt Whitman. "Orville Hickman Browning to Orville Hickman Browning, 14 April 1868." 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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April 14, 1868. The Hon: The Secretary of the Interior. Sir: I have the honor to transmit herewith the account, approved by me, and amounting to Fifteen hundred dollars, ($1500:) of J. Hubley Ashton, Esq. for services as special counsel to assist the Attorney General, in cases in Supreme Court of the United States, at December term, 1867; and to request its payment out of the appropriation for defraying the expenses of suits in which the United States are concerned under the Act of March 2, 1867. (14 Stats. 448.) Very respectfully, your obedient servant, O. H. Browning, Attorney General ad int.