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Title: Orville Hickman Browning to Edward Jordan, 17 July 1868

Date: July 17, 1868

Whitman Archive ID: nar.00605

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July 17, 1868.

Edward Jordan, Esq.

Solicitor of the Treasury.

Sir:

I have received from the District Attorney at Detroit, Michigan, through you, under your date of the 16th instant, the record of division of opinion in the case of the United States, vs. Henry C. Dewitt, which has been duly filed with the clerk of the Supreme Court, and the District Attorney so advised.

Respectfully &c. yours,

OH Browning

Attorney General ad interim.


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