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Title: J. Hubley Ashton to John D. Defrees, 25 August 1868
Date: August 25, 1868
Whitman Archive ID: nar.00639
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August 25, 1868.
John D. Defrees, Esq.
Superintendent Public Printing.
Sir:
You will please cause to be printed, for the use of this Office, two hundred, (200,) copies of a Circular letter of Instruction to United States Dist. Attorneys . . . a copy of which is herewith enclosed. Please send proof to this office immediately.
Very respectfully &c. yours,
J. Hubley Ashton,
Acting Attorney General
[copy of circular enclosed.]