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Title: Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar to Columbus Delano, 20 July 1869
Date: July 20, 1869
Whitman Archive ID: nar.00954
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July 20, 1869.
Hon. C. Delano,
Commissioner of Internal Revenue.
Sir:
I have just received the inclosed telegram from an officer in your Department.
I am not aware that it is a matter with which I have any official connection; and the sending a dispatch to this office without authority, at a charge of $12:29, is not a practice which I wish established.
Very Respectfully,
E. R. Hoar, Attorney General
unauthorized telegrams.