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Title: Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar to Elihu B. Washburne, 17 March 1869
Date: March 17, 1869
Whitman Archive ID: nar.00842
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March 17, 1869.
Hon. E. B. Washburne,
Secretary of State.
Sir:
In reply to your letter of the 18th inst. inquiring if any evidence has been communicated to this office showing an illegal arming & fitting out of the steamer Mount Vernon, I have the honor to say that the only information possessed by this office in relation to that vessel is contained in a letter to R. Sherman, Esq., U. S. Marshal for Rhode Island, addressed by the Attorney General at the suggestion of the Secretary of State, Jan. 20, 1869, a copy of which is herewith transmitted.
Very resp. sir, yr obt servt.
E. R. Hoar,
Attorney General.